Burro Schmidt's Tunnel

Address Restricted, Ridgecrest, California. County/parish: Kern.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 20, 2003. NRIS 03000113.

1 contributing structure.

Also known as:

  • William Henry Schmidt's Tunnel

From Wikipedia:

Burro Schmidt Tunnel

The historical Burro Schmidt Tunnel is located in the El Paso Mountains of the northern Mojave Desert, in eastern Kern County, southern California.

It is a 0.5-mile (0.80 km) mining tunnel dug with hand tools and dynamite over a 38-year period by William "Burro" H. Schmidt (1871–1954). in the El Paso Mountains of eastern California.

The tunnel is below the summit of a 4,400-foot (1,300 m) mountain. Its southern adit (portal) overlooks the Fremont Valley, Koehn Dry Lake, and the ghost towns of Garlock and Saltdale.

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