Burro Schmidt Tunnel

Dave Rowley 

on Google

2 weeks ago

This guy was insane. He spent 35 years digging a tunnel with his hands. A lot of people always ask why did he do it. The answer was he was insane. That's the only answer. It is a fun place to visit. You get to walk the entire length of the tunnel and come out to a beautiful view (spoiler alert: You can just walk over the top of the hill and get to the end of the tunnel in no time, but what fun would that be). Watch out for a number of low hanging rocks. I hit my head on at least one or two of them. 

Harold Wright 

on Google

a month ago

This photo of the rail car in the tunnel was taken in 1999 before it was stolen 

Adrian 

on Google

2 months ago

There's gold in them hills burro Schmidt didn't get none! 

Angella Raisian 

on Google

2 months ago

One man with two donkeys, a few hand tools, a wheelbarrow, and some explosives, spent over 33 years singlehandedly digging a tunnel almost a half-mile long in the solid rock of Copper Mountain in the remote Mojave Desert of California. During his lifetime William “Burro” Schmidt would never fully explain his tunnel excavation project, except to say that is was a “short cut.” He had moved to California from Rhode Island for health reasons and staked a mining claim in the Mojave Desert’s El Paso range. At that time transportin... read more

Fred Perkins 

on Google

3 months ago

I do not recommend Mo's egg house for any meals it has deteriorated so much that I cannot even eat there and I have been coming there for 15 years they've doubled the price of what used to be