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Residual pavement exists here and there on Walking Box Ranch Road

7273-walking-box-ranch-rd.jpg Stop sign in the desert: after 11 dirt-road miles, I reach the end of Walking Box Ranch RoadThumbnailsPink-orange stripes crown the New York Mountains on the southeast side of Ivanpah ValleyStop sign in the desert: after 11 dirt-road miles, I reach the end of Walking Box Ranch RoadThumbnailsPink-orange stripes crown the New York Mountains on the southeast side of Ivanpah ValleyStop sign in the desert: after 11 dirt-road miles, I reach the end of Walking Box Ranch RoadThumbnailsPink-orange stripes crown the New York Mountains on the southeast side of Ivanpah ValleyStop sign in the desert: after 11 dirt-road miles, I reach the end of Walking Box Ranch RoadThumbnailsPink-orange stripes crown the New York Mountains on the southeast side of Ivanpah ValleyStop sign in the desert: after 11 dirt-road miles, I reach the end of Walking Box Ranch RoadThumbnailsPink-orange stripes crown the New York Mountains on the southeast side of Ivanpah Valley

Now that there is no longer much mining activity in the area, I'm guessing that the pavement is no longer being renewed. In my notes from my 2000 trip here, I recorded that someone called this an "oiled road," not a paved road.