Calico Ghost Town near Barstow will celebrate its 4th annual California Days event over Presidents Day weekend. Officials with the San Bernardino County Regional Parks said the event is scheduled from ...

It’s rare to see guys in their 20s running like scared little girls through the streets of Calico Ghost Town, but Alberto made my Knott’s Scary Farm dreams come true — and I did my best to fill his ...

They are dusty remnants of California’s Gold Rush past, two little ghost towns, 300 miles apart. One is Bodie, a wind-swept blip in the sage-covered emptiness of Mono County. The other is Calico, a ...

Driving up into the hills towards Calico set my mind to thinking about the origins of this historical place. The same thoughts must have occurred to Walter Knott of Knott’s Berry Farm when he made the ...

CALICO ROCK — Greg Hamby, 54, wants to help his hometown grow and prosper. “That’s why I chose to run for mayor,” he said, noting that he did not have a ...

The boom, bust, and rebirth of the former silver mining camp of Calico, located northeast of Barstow, is one of the most fascinating chapters in California’s frontier history. The chapter begins in ...