Cool Springs Camp update

Yesterday, I e-mailed Ned Leuchtner, owner of the restored Cool Springs Camp on Route 66 between Kingman and Oatman, Ariz., to ask him how things were going with Mohave County and his zoning troubles with the business. The county was giving him static because he was building a replica lodging cabin next door, to be used only as parking.

Leuchtner wrote:

We are going to have our final hearing with Mohave County for our zoning revision. We are told that it looks good to be reviewed and formally approved. I had to write a short story about what we are all about at Cool Springs and submit this the county fathers.

We have strived hard to promote Route 66 and be a positive reflection upon the county. But needless to say, you still have to go through the same process that anyone else goes through for zoning review and approval.

Thank goodness for our spirited team and our commitment to the cause.

We look forward to getting through this phase and becoming better than ever.

Leuchtner’s restoration of Cool Springs Camp received a Cyrus Avery Award for preservation. Cool Springs Camp was built in the 1920s and was severely damaged by fire in the 1960s. The remains of the long-closed business were literally blown up in 1991 during a movie shoot in for “Universal Soldier.”

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