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The colorful history of the Old West comes to life in Eldorado Canyon, home to the famed Techatticup Gold Mine. The mine tour is guided by a Techatticup Gold Mine expert who will guide you through the mine as well as a short tour outside the mine to learn about the history of the area. See historic buildings, cars and learn about films that used this historic area as their backdrop. Make an additional stop, at a viewpoint which highlights the Colorado River. You’ll enjoy spectacular scenery along the way where your Pink Jeep Guide will point out fields of teddy bear cholla, rare geological formations, and excellent photo opportunity of the Colorado River.
4 hour tour
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Gold Mine Tour in Nevada
- 4 hour tour
- Ride to Eldorado Canyon in our comfortable Tour Trekker
- Experience the Wild West and tour inside the Techatticup gold mine
- Explore a private collection of historic cars, buildings and movie backdrops
- See and learn about unique desert plants like the Teddy Bear Cholla
- Shop at the gift shop for souvenirs
- Stop to photograph expansive views of the Colorado River
Tour Details
Gear up to be immersed in a true wild west experience at one of Nevada’s richest gold mines. There are tales of gold fever and claim jumping, disastrous floods, fortunes won and lost, wild politics and more. Hear true stories of the men who blasted their way underground in search of buried treasure.
You'll learn from a local expert about gold mining in southern Nevada at the Techatticup gold mine, which operated from 1861 until 1942. While you’re there, explore a private collection of old cars, memorabilia, and souvenirs from movie sets filmed in the area. Restrooms and a gift shop are available.
Your certified Pink Jeep Tours guide will give you the colorful history of this remote and once-thriving mine, and point out unique features of the desert landscape. Check out an abundance of desert plants like the Teddy Bear Cholla. They look soft enough to hug, but these teddy bears will hug you right back, in a prickly way you won’t soon forget!
A short drive from the mine reveals interesting geological formations and ends at an overlook above a beautiful stretch of the Colorado River at Nelson’s Landing. Cameras ready for a terrific photo op! For 40 years of the mine’s history, coming up the river on a steamboat to this spot was the main way to reach the mine.
Go back in time on the Eldorado Canyon Gold Mine tour.