Spend a perfect day and take a walking tour and discover historic Genoa Nevada. Park your car (anywhere is a good spot really) and start your visit at the park with the reconstructed 1851 trading post. You can’t miss it…it’s smack dab in the middle of beautiful peaceful historic Genoa.
A Brief History of Genoa Nevada
Genoa is the site of the first non-native permanent settlement in Nevada. Starting as a trading post in 1850 along the California Trail, Genoa provided supplies to travelers before crossing the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Often cited as beginning in 1851, that is because that is when the second and ‘permanent’ trading post was built. That one grew to include a blacksmith shop, livery, flour and saw mills… and voila.. a town was born!
Genoa has another claim to fame as it was a stop for the pony express. Each year that is honored and