Where is nipton california

History A mining camp was established here at the crossroads of two wagon trails. Town site A five-room adobe hotel was built in the Mexican Territorial style in In popular culture The town of Nipton appears in the popular game. Places Nipton Nipton, California. Woods Mountains. Copper Mountain Solar Fa…. Cottonwood Cove Road Bet…. Teddy Bear Cholla, Cotto….

Lake Mohave. Basin and Range Topograp…. They rented out the cafe to different vendors, and it became locally famous in the late s for the Bill Burger , which Salter described to me as a hamburger wrapped in a tortilla, kind of like Taco Bell's Crunchwrap Supreme. Freeman and Lang made money by renting RVs to workers at the nearby Brightsource solar energy plant, which went online in , and letting out hotel rooms, mostly to European tourists obsessed with the California desert.

High school sweethearts who had reconnected on Facebook after 30 years apart, they had fallen in love on road trips through the California desert and briefly considered living in the Mojave National Preserve. On one of their first trips together, they had visited Nipton, where they eventually became friends with the Latinx Seventh-Day Adventist couple who ran the restaurant.

One weekend, Wysong called the general store to rent a room and asked the employee if he knew anyone who could marry them. The employee asked the "other Roxanne" Nipton had two and, with a single phone call, Wysong had planned her wedding. The other Roxanne officiated and a fellow Nipton hotel guest served as a witness at the tiny wedding.

She hasn't been back since American Green bought it. The town's just not the same, she says. Jim Eslinger, who has lived here since , says he couldn't survive in a city anymore after getting used to life in Nipton. He refers to himself as Nipton's mayor, a title that Lang would like him to stop using since the unincorporated town has no elected officials. He's a Nipton lifer and the "coolest long haired hippie freak in town," he tells me as he cackles at the description.

Eslinger has worked for all of the enterprises that have come through town, doing all sorts of jobs from "housemaid to maintenance to working in the store," he says. He can't imagine leaving when the town changes hands. Whoever gets the town gets me with it. It's a waiting game until Nipton changes hands again. The last couple of months haven't yielded a buyer.

Lang attributes American Green's purchase of Nipton, in part, to an article about the town published in Sunset magazine. She hopes some fresh publicity will bring another offer. Maybe a new Jerry Freeman with utopian idealism and deep pockets will ride into town. Maybe they'll find a way to reinvent Nipton as a tourist destination. Maybe they'll highlight its scenic panoramas and wide open spaces or play to the New Age crowd with sound baths and crystal witch retreats or lead Big City folks on survivalist expeditions.

Anything to spark a new boom, one that'll last keep the town chugging along until the next bust. Support for LAist comes from.

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Share This Facebook Twitter. LA History. By Julia Sizek. Published Feb 4, AM. Torn teepees dot the field just behind Nipton, and tiny homes appear to be in near turn-key condition to welcome visitors who want to step into the wild west experience. Art installations, including one artifact from the Burning Man Festival called "Perpetual Consumption," sprout from the desert floor. Since the town has been back on the market in the latter part of , there's been interest from approximately 30 buyers, according to Sherin.

The town's current owner believes there is a bright future for Nipton, some 30 years after her late husband Jerry Freeman bought the near-ghost town with aspirations of reviving the town into a modern, green and sustainable community. Actions Facebook Tweet Email. Sometimes, curious passersby briefly hang their hats as well. Roxanne Lang. Copyright Scripps Media, Inc.