Skidoo, California
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- This article is about an American ghost town. For other uses, see Skidoo (disambiguation).
Skidoo is a ghost town located in Death Valley National Park, California.
It knew a brief fame in the first decade of the 20th century when gold had been found in the area. Within a few years it had been abandoned, however, and now no standing structures remains. Its desert location is sometimes still visited by serious ghost town aficionados.
Tourists to the site of the town are sometimes visited in their campsites at night by a man wearing early 20th Century clothing and a bowler hat. He asks for directions out of town and then walks away. He appears to be the ghost of a local murderer who was lynched about 1905.
The name Skidoo comes from the expression 23 skidoo, a slang expression of the time, for which various origins have been suggested.
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Fauna, Flora and Minerals
Borax • Chuckwalla • Death Valley monkeyflower • Death Valley pupfish • Devil's Hole pupfish • Salt Creek Pupfish
History
Death Valley Railroad • Greenwater • Lake Manly • Skidoo
Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad • Twenty mule team
Places
Amargosa Range / River / Valley • Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge • Badwater • Ballarat • Beatty • Chloride City • Death Valley Junction • Eureka Dunes • Furnace Creek • Panamint City / Range / Springs / Valley • Racetrack • Rhyolite • Scotty's Castle • Stovepipe Wells • Telescope Peak • Trona • Ubehebe Crater • Zabriske Point
Transportation
CA SR127 • CA SR178 • CA SR190 • NV SR373 •NV SR374 • Trona Railway • US95
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