Our second 4 wheeling trip on the Paiute Trail was to the Silver King Mine. We traveled up and up and up with lots of switchbacks but the road was in good shape and fairly wide. The ride up into the mountains was very pretty with a creek running alongside for awhile and then great mountain peak views. When we got to the old mine site it was nicely laid out for a walking tour. There was a lot of silver taken out of the area and it was fairly remote site. Its hard to believe they could haul the ore out of here. The owner of the mine lived right on site because it was so far out. The storyboard says a rich silver vein was found after mining low grade ore for quite awhile. Unfortunately they used dynamite to get at the rich vein but brought the mountain down into the mine instead of exposing the vein. It is now buried deep beneath the earth.
We have done some shorter rides along more of the Paiute Trail on the east side of the highway. The roads are very nice and we try to stick to the easy to moderate rides. We aren't up for the trails marked difficult. We might start down one just to see what makes a trail difficult. We have been on some steep winding trails that were adventurous enough for us. Now maybe if that was the only way to get to the gold we might me more inclined to give the more difficult trails a try.
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