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Garlock Road is located in the Mojave Desert of eastern Kern County in Fremont Valley.  The corridor originated in 1873 as part of the Searles Brothers stage road between Mojave and their Borax plant in Searles Valley.  The modern roadway is named for the Garlock ghost town which was a stamp mill community founded in 1896 to service ore from the Yellow Aster Mine.  Garlock Road begins at Redrock-Randsburg Road and terminates 8.3 miles to the east at US Route 395.  Part 1; the history of Garlock Road What is now modern day Garlock Road was part of the western Searles Brothers stage road.  Said roadway connected from the Searles Borax Plant at Searles Valley west to Mojave beginning in 1873.  The road utilized a passage through Fremont Valley wedged between the Rand Mountains and El Paso Mountains.  The western Searles Brothers stage road can be seen on the 1882 Bancroft's map of California .  In 1896 Eugene Garlock constructed a stamp mill in Fremo...

The combined corridor of Bell Vista Road in Nye County, Nevada and State Line Road in Inyo County, California forms an approximately 27.5-mile rural Mojave Desert highway corridor.  The Bell Vista Road corridor begins in the community of Pahrump and extends west to the California state line near Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.  The State Line Road corridor continues west to California State Route 127 at Death Valley Junction.  Bell Vista Road and State Line Road have become a popular path of travel in modern times due to ease of access to Death Valley National Park.   The original portions of Bell Vista Road west of Pahrump Valley was constructed as part of the Lila C Mine traction road in 1907.  The corridor of State Line Road was constructed after Death Valley Junction was plotted as the terminus of the Death Valley Railroad in 1914.  The remaining balance of modern Bell Vista Road east of Ash Meadows Road as constructed after the population bo...