Please remember to exercise caution when exploring Nevada's Ghost Towns & Mining Camps. Open shafts, drifts going into mountainsides, and old buildings, are all DANGEROUS. Be aware of your surroundings, and let someone know where you are, especially if your plans change.

Warm Springs

Warm springs is located on U.S.6 49 miles east of Tonopah.

"Warm Springs originally was the stopping place for freighters and stages traveling to Eureka and Elko. The first settlers came to this site in 1886 and built a small stone house next to the warm soothing springs. This small settlement never really grew, but after the turn of the century a store and a logging house were built there. Warm Springs continued to serve a small number of weary desert travelers. In the 1920's the town reached its peak. On January 19, 1924, a post office, with Ethel Allred as postmaster, opened in the town. Even though it closed on June 29, 1929, there was and now still are a fairly steady number of travelers stopping at the Warm Springs.

No one lives in Warm Springs today. A small trailer park was there in the 1970's but is gone. A combined gas station and saloon have also been closed. Once the Leaching operations at Reveille and Keystone stopped, The little amount of traffic on the highways couldn't service the operations. Old buildings from Warm Springs's early days still stand. The springs are still flowing, but a small private swimming pool is off-limits to the public. But a couple of small huts are set up so that travelers can savor a warm dip in privacy."

**At this time Warm Springs in not open.

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