Good’s Spring

Anasazi and Paiute people discovered this spring, which sustained the first mule train to pioneer the pack route later known as the Old Spanish Trail between Santa Fe and Los Angeles. Antonio Armijo, commander for the discovery of the route to California, camped here with 60 men and 100 mules on January 11, 1830, and called it “Ojito de la tortuga,” or “Little Spring of the Tortoise.” Used by miner and cattleman Joe Good in the 1860s, it became known as Good’s Spring.

Goodsprings, Nevada · United States