Carson City -- State Museum, Capitol Building, and Nugget Casino
The Carson Nugget Casino allows overnight RV parking in their lot #4, which has lines marked for 35' RVs. You need to ask for a parking pass from their security office. The casino is in downtown Carson City, near the State Museum, Capitol Building, various state offices, two smaller casinos and at least half a dozen restaurants. There was no buffet when I was there. I ate breakfast in their Cafe, reasonable but not exciting.
The old Carson City Mint building is part of the State Museum. It is
catty-cornered from the Nugget. The museum admission is $8, and it
has displays on mining, minting, a ghost town, slot machines, natural
history, minerals, native americans, and other things as they apply to
the state. I was unaware of the border war between Nevada and
California. The display on atomic testing was disappointingly small.
It took me about 3 hours to see the museum.
The Capitol building has a free small museum in the old senate hall,
mostly about the building itself and the politics of the state.
We'll be here within the week.... if I fail to talk Johnny into staying at Mammoth Lakes for another month.
Definitely gonna visit the city museum. Probably going to stay at the Casino while we stock up after two or more months of HWY 395 tourist grocery prices. Johnny swears he saw a jar of peanut butter go from $4 to $10 in three weeks at the Von's in Mammoth lakes. That same jar would cost $2.5 elsewhere. I digress. Anyway, is there anything that you wish you would have seen in the area? Or perhaps between here (mammoth lakes) and there.
Glad to see you went caving! Kick ass. Hope to see you this winter. Cheers!