Less than 8 miles from the Mexican border, Bisbee was founded as a copper, gold, and silver mining town in 1880, and named in honor of Judge DeWitt Bisbee, one of the financial backers of the adjacent Copper Queen Mine. Because its plan was laid out to a pedestrian scale before the automobile, Old Bisbee is compact and walkable, and not a place to drive your RV. The town's hilly terrain is exemplified by the old four-story high school; each floor has a ground-level entrance. Mining in the Mule Mountains proved quite successful; in the early 20th century the population of Bisbee soared to more than 9,000. In 1917, open-pit mining was successfully introduced to meet the copper demand during World War I. Mining operations in Bisbee ceased in 1975, and heritage tourism replaced mining as Bisbee's economic driver. Artist Stephen Hutchison and his wife Marcia purchased the Copper Queen Hotel,as well as other buildings in the downtown area. Actor John Wayne was a frequent visitor to Bisbee and the Copper Queen. He befriended Hutchison and eventually partnered with developer Ed Smart in his real estate ventures. Bisbee became a haven for artists and hippies fleeing the larger cities of Arizona and California. Today, the historic city of Bisbee is known as "Old Bisbee" and is home to a thriving downtown cultural scene. For our visit to Bisbee, we're still boondocking away from everyone else along Forest Road 687 within Arizona's Coronado National Forest, at the foot of the Dragoon Mountains just north of Tombstone. If you'd like more information about camping along Forest Road 687, watch our previous episode number 143 on Tombstone https://youtu.be/w4l7YSzFBCw . Filmed: March 21-24, 2020 FOR MORE INFORMATION * Our Campsite https://goo.gl/maps/kNSbv5wYUAhXDr1G6 * Bisbee, Arizona https://www.discoverbisbee.com/ GET GRAND ADVENTURE STUFF We've created some fun and quirky merchandise particularly for RV campers, including t-shirts, coffee mugs and more. Sales help to support Grand Adventure to keep bringing you outdoor adventure videos each and every week. Visit https://teespring.com/stores/grandadventure to browse our selection. USE WHAT WE USE We've opened a Grand Adventure store on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/shop/GrandAdventure Unlike other Amazon shops, every single item you see in our store is hand picked from things we use ourselves in our own Grand Adventures, from RV stuff to our dogs and even photography and videography. We've tried it, we've tested it, and we can heartily recommend it. No random stuff or paid product placements. It costs you no more to shop Amazon with us, but by shopping our store a portion of each sale goes to bringing you more and better Grand Adventure videos! Thank you for clicking through to give us a look! CREDITS
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