5/24: wrote the necessary 2 emails to this place. Note that google maps is incorrect. These guys are right on the way. Looks like a pretty neat place and cool folks. Thinking we can stay here on the way back??
Silver Jack INN & LectroLux Cafe @Great Basin National Park on the Loneliest Road
Baker Nevada Lodging
RT 487, Baker NV 89311
Terry Marasco, owner, on My 1998 Honda Shadow Aero
"My wife and I were on a 4 week trip on our Harley June 2011. From Atlanta to San Francisco. We stayed at 28 places in those 4 weeks and your place, surely was the best on the whole trip."
Great Basin National Park best in country for stargazing!
This is a shot I took on RT 50, "The Lonliest Road" through NV. The mountains in the distance flank the Smokey Valley about mid section of the state. This is a bicyclist and motorcyclist dream land - little traffic, vast landscapes, well-paved roads.
Our wildlife neighbors include mountain lions & bobcats (very reclusive and hardly seen), elk, mule deer, antelope, bighorn sheep, coyote, badgers, occasional marmots, at least 200 bird species, rabbits, lizards and a great variety of vegetation.
A Local...Lizard by T Marasco
Of course we have creatures that startle – rattlesnakes, black widow & brown recluse spiders, and scorpions. Our domesticated neighbors are cattle, horses, and sheep. A few of the people here are relatively domesticated as well…
The vegetation includes many wildflowers (Spring the best viewing season), many sage varieties (smell our sage perfume early in the AM), grasses, Pinion Pine (pine nuts were a staple of Native peoples and are still harvested today), Juniper, pine forests, and 3-4,000 year-old Bristle Cone pines.
Big Ole Moth at our door (5'x3"). by T Marasco
Collect fossils from areas nearby. Many desert plants are planted in the gardens.
This Utah Juniper, a native, is a few hundred years old. The view is across Snake Valley to Mt Wheeler (13,063') in the National Park. Photo by Terry Marasco
Unfortunately, Google has us 9 miles off base!
We are on NV 487 which intersects with Rt 50/6. Just 500 feet past the road (NV488) that leads to the park.
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