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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2009, Spring: Mojave National Preserve / Day 9: Mojave National Preserve Mid Hills campground to Nipton by bicycle via Cima and Morning Star Mine Road /

The amazing 11.5-mile downhill on Morning Star Mine Road abruptly ends at a T-intersection and stop sign at Ivanpah Road

03376-ivanpah-road-stop.jpg Still rolling quickly downward on Morning Star Mine Road, Ivanpah Valley comes clearer into viewThumbnailsAfter three miles on Ivanpah Road, I head east on Nipton Road for the final seven miles across Ivanpah ValleyStill rolling quickly downward on Morning Star Mine Road, Ivanpah Valley comes clearer into viewThumbnailsAfter three miles on Ivanpah Road, I head east on Nipton Road for the final seven miles across Ivanpah ValleyStill rolling quickly downward on Morning Star Mine Road, Ivanpah Valley comes clearer into viewThumbnailsAfter three miles on Ivanpah Road, I head east on Nipton Road for the final seven miles across Ivanpah ValleyStill rolling quickly downward on Morning Star Mine Road, Ivanpah Valley comes clearer into viewThumbnailsAfter three miles on Ivanpah Road, I head east on Nipton Road for the final seven miles across Ivanpah ValleyStill rolling quickly downward on Morning Star Mine Road, Ivanpah Valley comes clearer into viewThumbnailsAfter three miles on Ivanpah Road, I head east on Nipton Road for the final seven miles across Ivanpah Valley

I'll turn left at the intersection here onto Ivanpah Road to partially circumvent and then cross Ivanpah Valley on the way to Nipton.