Directions: Highway 50E from Fallon 92.7 miles

From Fallon: 92.7 miles

What Was

Paher says this was an Overland Mail stage station from 1861 to until 1869. The station probably remained open for another twenty years after that.

Post Office: None
Newspaper: None

What is

We were deep into cricket season when we visited Mount Airy- the little beggars were everywhere. This is a nice location- there is a spring with a little swampy area, although there were several hundred drowned crickets in it which made it unpleasant for swimming. Still, a perfect place for a little station out in the middle of nowhere. A couple of rock ruins are all that's left of Mount Airy, and the lonely grave of Mrs. Franklin, who reportedly died of smallpox.