Tonopah, NV temporary housing (#1133)

Not a great picture because I couldn’t get the elevation needed to show the location, but this was a new addition to town. Technically it’s an RV park, which also has some manufactured homes for rent (you can see them in the background on the left side of the picture.)

Though ‘RV park’ in many places means a place for travelers/tourists to park their RV for just a few days while in the area, this looked to be more like the RV parks I’ve seen in other parts of the country where people stay for many months while they are working on some extended contract. While it made sense for this to be built during the construction of the nearby very large solar field in 2014-15, it wasn’t clear what current economic activities would call for a large number of contract workers.