# Have you ever been to Pioche, NV? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 30, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-pioche-nv/587351 "2011-06-30T03:23:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-pioche-nv/587351/1 "2011-06-30T03:23:15Z")
I have an oppertunity to go there and am wondering if I should go, are there places or things to do for sure while there??? Anything anyone can tell me would be appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-pioche-nv/587351/2 "2011-06-30T03:31:59Z")
Are you going there to see Cathedral Gorge? If so, it’s pretty neat. Otherwise, it’s a good place if you like solitude…you’ll be way out in the middle of nowhere. ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-pioche-nv/587351/3 "2011-06-30T04:38:41Z")
I’d be going to see a band that will be playing there. I will google Cathedral Gorge, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-pioche-nv/587351/4 "2011-06-30T04:45:43Z")
I’ve been to Pioche a few times. It’s a very _very_ small town. I don’t think they even have a population of 1,000 yet. 2 maybe 3 gas stations and a handful of small restaurants. Cathedral Gorge is nearby, as is Echo Canyon State Park. Echo Canyon is known mostly for it’s reservoir, which is well stocked with rainbow trout, largemouth bass and crappie. Not sure what band you’re going to see in Pioche, but it better be a helluva band to make up for the fact that you’ll basically be in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do except be uncomfortably hot and thirsty. ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-pioche-nv/587351/5 "2011-06-30T08:50:40Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I’ve been to Pioche a few times. It’s a very _very_ small town. I don’t think they even have a population of 1,000 yet. 2 maybe 3 gas stations and a handful of small restaurants. > > Cathedral Gorge is nearby, as is Echo Canyon State Park. Echo Canyon is known mostly for it’s reservoir, which is well stocked with rainbow trout, largemouth bass and crappie. > > Not sure what band you’re going to see in Pioche, but it better be a helluva band to make up for the fact that you’ll basically be in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do except be uncomfortably hot and thirsty. My husband is in the band. Thank you very much for your description. That’s what I had pictured from what I’ved googled. It sounds like a ghost town that is holding on by a few hundred people. Hope the buildings can be toured or something…not just looked at by driving by them. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-pioche-nv/587351/6 "2011-06-30T10:27:43Z")
You can tour the Million Dollar Courthouse; it’s pretty notorious (as in “well-known about”) here in Nevada. The gas stations will let you come inside too. When are you going? The town does have a touristy thing they do for Labor Day, where they put RW&B banners and ribbons all over every damned inch of the place and play at doing mining stuff like they did 100 years ago. Is his band playing during that? ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-pioche-nv/587351/7 "2011-06-30T12:17:37Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > You can tour the Million Dollar Courthouse; it’s pretty notorious (as in “well-known about”) here in Nevada. > > The gas stations will let you come inside too. > > When are you going? The town does have a touristy thing they do for Labor Day, where they put RW&B banners and ribbons all over every damned inch of the place and play at doing mining stuff like they did 100 years ago. Is his band playing during that? They are playing this Saturday so I’m guessing a 4th of July thingy. ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-pioche-nv/587351/8 "2011-06-30T12:40:58Z")
Great Basin National Park isn’t all that far away. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-pioche-nv/587351/9 "2011-06-30T12:46:45Z")
> [@zagloba](#): > > Great Basin National Park isn’t all that far away. It’s about 100 miles. That’s 90 minutes-2 hours in the car just to get there. I will say, tho, that GBNP is a terrific place. I’ve been there a couple of times and enjoyed myself (and the view from Wheeler Peak) immensely. ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-pioche-nv/587351/10 "2011-06-30T21:30:31Z")
In the intermountain west, 100 miles isn’t that far.