Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2000: Mojave National Preserve Bicycle Camping Trip #2 / Day 5: Day ride from Nipton up to I-15 near Clark Mountain area and back 12
Today is a not quite a day off, but close. I'll stay here and camp at Nipton again tonight. I'm sleeping in today, then going for a short ride up to I-15 and see what the old roads in that area look like.
22.9 miles, 2:08 hours, 33.4 mph max speed, 10.7 mph average on today's "maintenance ride" from 3000 feet up to 3400 feet and back.
My Nipton campsite
One of the tent cabins at Nipton
The historic Hotel Nipton building
The shower building (quonset hut) at Nipton
Inside the rustic Nipton shower building, dirt floors and all!
Picnic table behind the Nipton campground
Nipton General Store and the café building
Nipton Road crosses ugly I-15
Looking down into Ivanpah Valley, west of the I-15/Nipton Road interchange
Riding down the old road just west of I-15
Cattle-guard on Nipton Road at I-15
Top of Nipton Road, looking back toward "town"