Directions: From Fallon, west on Highway 50 27 miles to Silver Springs; South on US 95A 33 miles to Yerington; SOUth on SR 208 for 31.5 miles; SE on East Walker River Rd (aka Pine Grove Road or Highway 3C) for 10.2 miles; West on National Forest Road for 1 mile, left on National Forest Road for 4.5 miles.

From Fallon: 84 miles

What Was

What with all the good stuff taken in the Pine Grove area, is was only a matter of time before prospectors started scratching around Rockland, six miles away. Paher mentions a ten-stamp mill in "nearby Bridgeport Canyon" but I couldn't find any such place anywhere in the vicinity. Evidently a ticked-off miner burned down the original mill, but in the early 1900's three more were constructed. Active during World War One, things finally ground to a halt in the mid 1930's.

Post Office: January 1871- June 1909

Newspaper: Pine Grove & Rockland Star

What Is

It wasn't a stretch to come up with the name "Rockland" for any town situated here- rocks are indeed plentiful. Thre are some assorted mine workings left scattered around, along with a building and pieces of some structures. The road here from Pine Grover is definitely a 4WD road- you have to climb a small waterfall in one spot, and the road is rutted, wet, and rocky. I surmise the situation will be the same in summer, only drier. Rockland is in a more narrow canyon than Pine Grove and roughly 750 feet higher in elevation. There is some evidence of more recent mining attempts here.