For Immediate Release
Feb. 6, 2025 |
Contact
Dominique Hernandez,
Regional Parks Recreation Coordinator
dominique.hernandez@parks.sbcounty.gov
909-387-2410
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California Days returns to Calico Ghost Town Feb. 15-16
San Bernardino County Regional Parks is excited to commemorate the fourth annual California Days event at Calico Ghost Town over Presidents’ Day weekend on Feb. 15-16, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event celebrates early California history with a focus on California’s admission to the union as the nation’s 31st state on Sept. 9, 1850, and celebrated on February 22 every year.
This family-friendly event highlights the people and culture of early California by hosting family activities, gunfighter shows by the Calico Mountain Volunteer Gunfighters, butter churning, and reenactments along with educational displays on the state’s Bear Flag, Pony Express Trail, and Butterfield Overland Trail.
Serving as a natural backdrop to the Old West, Calico will travel back in time with rope-making demos, beard & mustache contest, arts & crafts, games and contests, petting zoo, pony rides, stories about the Pony Express, and more.
Live music from popular artists such as Rose’s Pawnshop, The Storytellers and Southern Spirit Band as well as Calico favorites, Lilies of the West, Blue Henrys, High D Boys and Orange Town Revival will bring the town to life. Other entertainment includes the Victorian Muse Theater at the Town Hall and classroom reenactment sessions from the 1800s at the schoolhouse as well as some Wild West street skits performed by the "Scoundrels Alley" Calico troupe.
The popular Dorsey Dog Delivery game also returns and is a doggie scavenger hunt where owners and their furry friends search for clues throughout town to win the ultimate prize of a treat goodie bag and first-place ribbon from Dorsey’s Dog House.
There will be plenty of food options and beverages for eventgoers at the Calico Restaurant and Lil’s Saloon. All the Calico attractions will be open, including Maggie Mine and the Calico Oddessa Railroad. Attractions are an additional charge. For attraction prices, visit www.calicoattractions.com.
The event is sponsored by Equinox Gold, Mitsubishi Cement Corporation and Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers Restaurants. Equinox Gold and Mitsubishi Cement Corp. will be on-site to provide regional mining displays and information materials related to mineral uses in modern consumer products. Raising Cane’s will provide good ol’ fashion fun with games and giveaways. All sponsors are dedicated to supporting local communities through programs and education.
 A man and his dog participate in the Dorsey Dog Delivery scaveger hunt during California Days at Calico Ghost Town in 2023.
Calico will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Prices are $10 per adult, $5 children ages 4-11, and 3 years and under are FREE. For more details and a daily schedule of events, visit parks.sbcounty.gov/calico-california-days.
Calico Ghost Town offers full and partial RV hookup camping. Reservations may be booked directly online at www.sbcountyparks.com or by calling 1-800-862-2542. Calico offers cabins, bunkhouses and RV trailers as rentals.
Calico Ghost Town is located at 36600 Ghost Town Road in Yermo, about 13 miles north of Barstow, Calif.
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