- Elmer's Bottle Tree Ranch, a really interesting attraction
on the way from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
It's about two hours from LA to get here,
and this place, it's a ranch,
trees with bottles on it.
And they actually come off a little bit.
But I think it's just, it's this guy in the house,
it's a pretty neat place, admission is free,
come and check it out if you're driving to Las Vegas,
but just be careful you don't knock them off.
And now, join me for a walking tour
through the Bottle Tree Ranch.
First, the address, it's 24266 National Trails Highway
in Oro Grande, California, and parking,
it's just right on the street, right on this highway.
This is a very interesting stop
on a drive from LA to Las Vegas.
It's about ten miles off the Interstate 15 Freeway,
located just outside of Victorville.
It's about halfway between
Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
Pretty interesting place 'cause the guy who lives here
basically built this and opened it up to the public
with all these bottles, interesting artifacts.
It's free to come in.
He does have a little place that you can leave tips.
But I've never quite walked through a bottle forest before.
Bottles, all sorts of bottles, there's clear bottles,
brown bottles, green bottles,
and other antique'ish items.
There's not really a main path through it,
but you just kinda wander around this bottle forest.
It reminds me a bit of the Watts Towers
in Watts, California.
It was this thing built by this guy,
Simon Rodia, all sorts of tiles.
This isn't tile, it's bottles.
Here's some wind chimes made of hopefully fake bones.
Here's a sink.
Different farming instruments.
More bones.
Here we've got what looks to be an old cash register
from a long, long time ago.
And as you can see, as we get to the back,
looks like this would be the person's house
that lives at the Bottle Tree Ranch.
Old Coca-Cola machine.
Here's a deer.
Here what looks like a wagon wheel
with a Cadillac or a Lincoln emblem on it.
You can leave tips right here in the
little barrel.
There's more things,
looks like he's adding more to his side yard
to build this out a little bit more.
Couple surf boards, we're probably
a bit far from the ocean.
And then in the middle
of this area you can see there's, like,
an old bathtub, (chimes ringing)
and looks like some more bottles,
likely gonna be used to build out the Bottle Tree Ranch.
I mean, this is a very interesting house.
I bet it's pretty interesting on the inside too.
So if you are driving from Southern California
to Las Vegas or the other direction,
hopefully you're driving something nicer than this,
but assuming you are, then make sure to stop by
the Bottle Ranch to see some bottles growing on trees.
I mean, where else can you see this?
And it's along the historic Route 66.
Actually, let me show you something right here.
There's this historic Route 66 bottle
right here,
and this is how you know it's on the Route 66,
is there's Route 66 Beer.
Look at that, so explore the whole Route 66.
Well, if you're going to Vegas
and you haven't seen my videos on Vegas,
you can click here or here to watch some of them,
the best cheap eats, and things to know in Vegas.
Well, I won't say goodbye
because I'll see you in the next video.