Yermo is a spit out the window on your way from Barstow, California, to Arizona on Hwy. 40. It's in the Mojave desert, California. There's a U.S. Marines logistics base nearby, and apparently there is a Hummer auction there in the near future, with all bids starting at $300.
The sand around here is more like fine gravel with beige/brown tones. Lots of creosote bushes with Joshua trees in some spots more than others. The campground is a couple of miles from the restored silver mining town of Calico, which has been restored to the likes of Barkerville, with original buildings now housing a variety of shops and eateries. The town is on the side of a bare mountain and has old mine shafts everywhere, which makes it kind of interesting, and it does have a great name.
We got there just after noon on a Saturday, and there were not many people about, but then a couple of tour vans arrived, and then a large bus from L.A., filled primarily with Asian tourists dressed inappropriately for hiking around old silver mines.
The campground was really nice with lots of oleander shrubs and trees giving each campsite quite a bit of privacy and shade, but the minute you walked out the back gate, you realized you were indeed in the middle of the desert. It started raining the second day we were there. It poured from 4:00 p.m. to after midnight. The next day there were flash flood warnings in the area and heavy rain warnings for the San Bernardino area, which was the way we were heading to get over to the Palm Springs area.
It poured rain all the way over the mountains and down into San Bernardino. There was freeway construction that had reduced the traffic to one lane in each direction. We found out later that night why the Channel 2 TV van was there, setting up their equipment. The cause of the one-lane traffic was due to a mudslide in the center of the construction, and a little while after we got through they closed the freeway until the next day.
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