Skidoo

Skidoo was established when Harry Ramsey and John Thompson who, while on their way to Harrisburg Flats, got lost in bad weather, wandered up Tucki Mountain, and struck gold. Ramsey and his partner sold their stakes to Bob Montgomery (who owned a mine at Rhyolite) for $60,000. When it became publically known that Charles M. Schwab invested in Montgomery's mine, the stampede was on. Skidoo survived until the First World War, longer than most other Death Valley mining camps. It finally died when the water pipeline from Telescope Peak was dismantled for scrap metal.

Very little remains of Skidoo today. Where the town was once located is found a plaque that describes the location as "downtown" Skidoo. In the surrounding hills there are many mines, tailings, and some crumbling walls and structures.

Skidoo is quite accessible from a dirt road off Emigrant Canyon Road north of Harrisburg Flats.

Mine shaft a few kilometers before the Skidoo town site

Mine entrance about 1 km past "downtown" Skidoo