Check out the ruins of a Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach stop, via an easy wheelchair-accessible 0.75-mile round-trip trail starting from the Pine Springs Visitor Center. The Pinery is the only remaining Butterfield station near a major highway; the ruins are fragile, so it's forbidden to climb on them. If you're not up for a walk, there's a pull-off further east along US Hwy 62/180.
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