High Desert Museum: High Desert Homestead Ranch

Skip navigation and jump to content.

The Homestead

High Desert Homestead Ranch

Robbins Cabin

11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Daily (Weather Dependent)
Experience life on an 1880s homestead ranch. See their cabin, garden, water pump, outhouse, and root cellar.  Join in daily chores or pan for gold and experience their challenges as you talk to the settlers, read their letters and see what a settler's life was really like. 

Added Fun on Weekends

1:00 p.m - Pioneer Living 101 - Hands On!   Cook, cut wood, and make soap, candles, cheese and butter with the pioneers at the 1880's Homestead Ranch (weather permitting)