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On Essex Road, it's 6.3 miles past Interstate 40 to the nearly dead town of Essex, California at the base of the distant hills

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003-approachng-it-essex-768px.jpg A view of the Mitchell Caverns campground from a bit higher up shows how it's little more than a small, scenic parking lotThumbnailsGetting closer to Coyote Creek at the bottom of Bear Mountain Road.A view of the Mitchell Caverns campground from a bit higher up shows how it's little more than a small, scenic parking lotThumbnailsGetting closer to Coyote Creek at the bottom of Bear Mountain Road.A view of the Mitchell Caverns campground from a bit higher up shows how it's little more than a small, scenic parking lotThumbnailsGetting closer to Coyote Creek at the bottom of Bear Mountain Road.A view of the Mitchell Caverns campground from a bit higher up shows how it's little more than a small, scenic parking lotThumbnailsGetting closer to Coyote Creek at the bottom of Bear Mountain Road.

Essex Road drops a little, from 2100 feet to about 1700 feet at Essex.