Elmer's Bottle Tree Ranch

California

TypeRoadside Americana

Folk-art roadside attraction: 200+ 'bottle trees' and desert-scavenged curios built by the late Elmer Long along old Route 66; free, open sunrise-sunset, now tended by his son.

Folk-art roadside attraction: 200+ 'bottle trees' and desert-scavenged curios built by the late Elmer Long along old Route 66; free, open sunrise-sunset, now tended by his son.

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