Exploring Lowell and Warren - Motorized

In this motorized tour, we will first view the Lavender Pit, where the tour guide will tell you about the history of mining in Bisbee and the evolution from smelting to the electrochemical process of separating the copper from the ore.
After that, we will visit Erie Street in the ghost town of Lowell, which is home to a plethora of vintage cars. Lowell is also the home of the first Bisbee Breakfast Club. Here, also, the tour host will explain why the thriving community of Lowell was abandoned and why it is now in jeopardy of being permanently closed.
After that, we will visit the Shady Dell to tour its vintage motor homes and cars.

After Lowell, we will visit the Bisbee suburb of Warren, which has the distinction of being Arizona's first planned community. Although there were mines operating in the vicinity, Warren was primarily designed as a bedroom community for the more affluent citizens of the mining district. It was named after legendary George Warren, one of the first people to stake a copper claim in the Mule Mountains and whose image graces the Arizona State Seal. If the tour is scheduled on Saturday, we will take a break at the Bisbee Farmers Market, always a lively event.

The tour will proceed through the Warren mural district and, among other things, visit Sorted Past, an antiques and oddities shop, which commissioned a surreal vision of the world by muralist Bill Mead. Next door is the Bisbee Skate Park, which has a phenomenal display of graffiti art.

Lastly, we will visit the Evergreen Cemetery, where the sometimes-colorful residents of Bisbee now rest in the peace.