Sometimes the buzz of a largely populated city can cause you to want to venture away to a slower paced vicinity where a visitor can enjoy a more tranquil setting. One such place to keep in mind when you take that short road trip is Hawthorne, Nev. A small community in the high desert area. Slow paced and makes you feel you are stepping back in time. Only 75 miles from Carson City and just little over 175 miles from Fresno, Hawthorne is a small community with growth potential surrounded by beautiful mountain scenery and just north of Hawthorne you will find Walker Lake and Walker Lake Golf Course. The population is around 3,200 plus. It still has the home town flavor of a slower paced life with a peaceful backdrop of several mountain ranges. The 4,255 feet of elevation makes the high desert location of Hawthorne winter weather mild and summer warm, it is protected and nearly surrounded by a series of mountain ranges.
The main source driving the economy is the Hawthorne Army Depot, along with community governments, and small businesses and school system. It has its own Hawthorne Convention Center and airport and not far from several small communities in area.
Visitors to Hawthorne will enjoy a tour in the Hawthorne Ordinance Museum, an ammunition museum. The Veteran’s Memorial Park coming into Hawthorne and Hawthorne’s original one room school house.
Those inclined to getting out and enjoying nature will find many activities that include golfing, hiking, water activities such as canoing or boating and fishing, biking and camping, or horseback riding. There is a little something for everyone to get pleasure from.
When you want to rest from your days activities you will find a choice of five hotels to choose from that are near Hawthorne, Nev. A days visit to Hawthorne, Nev. will give you a chance to learn about early mining and exploration. To enjoy the beauty of a high dessert community and its people, to recapture the beauty in nature without all the rush of cars and big city noise.
Put Hawthorne, Nevada, on your next day trip or over night camping trip when you get the urge to enjoy the dessert scenery's or the snow capped mountain ranges. Enjoy an evening of star gazing from the glare of city lights and a day of off road exploring miles of open area around, near, or in Hawthorne, Nev.
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