Boron Rest Area Eastbound

Nice rest stop for facilities and to stretch your legs but the truck spots are tight here for truckers. It can get tricky trying to get into a spot here at night for a trucker looking for somewhere to rest for the night. I hope this can get fixed soon for us.

Nice rest stop for facilities and to stretch your legs but the truck spots are tight here for truckers. It can get tricky trying to get into a spot here at night for a trucker looking for somewhere to rest for the night. I hope this can get fixed soon for us.

Large area with tables and grass. Restrooms are clean and covered. It looks like there is typically vending machines available but they were gated over the day we came through.

Seems this is a busy rest area the day I stopped at it however it was on a Friday so that could have been it. It has many bathrooms vending machines and shaded picnic areas.

I visit this Rest area in Boron Ca 05/29/2021 This place is clean and friendly place picnic tables in shade areas are available..I hope they can plant more trees around the parking areas to make more shade for the vehicles in case you want to take a nap in your car..

Nice rest stop. It had plenty of parking space, the bathrooms were clean but 1 stall had a broken door & wouldn't stay locked. There's also a working payphone which was nice to see since you hardly see payphones nowadays.

All i can say is Amazing! Its got plenty of parking and its not so close to the highway so its not so noisy.... plenty of restrooms and very clean all around! I was able to rest peacefully.

Clean and well maintained restrooms with plenty of parking for both a quick stop or for an overnight stay. Its located far enough off the hwy so you don't hear much noise if you end up staying overnight.

An often much needed stop along the trip south. I love it's spread open style with both proper parking spots and flat open area great for RV's and Campers. Some cool open scenery surrounding, decent photo opportunities. Clean facilities that are well maintained. There's not much too it other than that but it uses its space very well. If it only had a sani-dump facility as well it would be perfect

Historical marker inscription: In the 1880s, the famous twenty-mule teams hauled borax from mines in Death Valley to the railroad junction in Mojave. The wagon route passed just north of here. In 1925, a huge deposit of borax ores was discovered near Boron. By the late 1920s, mining here replaced borax mining in Death Valley. The modern mine, north of the highway, is an open pit more than one mile long, one-half mile wide and 500 feet deep. Nearly 80 minerals were found in the open pit mine. These minerals were formed by unusual chemicals deposited in what was once a shallow lake. Long ago, volcanic flows formed a broad, shallow basin. The ridges to the northeast are made of this lava. Water and steam, rich in borates, rose through volcanic vents and cracks, and settled in the basin. As water evaporated, beds of borax formed. Over time, wind and water eroded nearby mountains and ridges. The erosion process covered the borax deposit with several hundred feet of sediment. Borax, and chemicals from borax, are used in hundreds of products from soaps and cosmetics to aircraft parts and jet fuels. Borax is a mineral composed of sodium, boron, oxygen and water. Borax for commercial use comes from a number of different minerals called borates. Twenty-mule team in Death Valley about 1885. The teams usually had 18 mules and two strong draft horses.

My wife and I had a nice picnic there on our way to Las Vegas. Now I'm sad.

Very clean 👍

It was very clean.