Some information on the Lida Airport. I would serious hesitate to use as status is unknown. It would seem it mainly served a legal bothel in the area and since the brothel has closed ? As to the brothel I never visited etc. and am not familiar with.



Esmeralda County

Lida Junction

Cottontail Ranch

The ranch opened in October 1967. It is also known as the Cottontail Ranch Club. In 1967, Howard Hughes allegedly made several visits to the Cottontail Ranch for entertainment while he was living in Las Vegas. In the 1970s, then madam Beverly Harrell battled with the United States Bureau of Land Management which was attempting to have the brothel removed from federal land. Harrell also was a candidate for the Nevada Assembly in 1974. The Cottontail Ranch was closed in 2004 when the madam retired.

Goldfield

- The Den

- Attached to the Ajax & Martine Saloon.

- Harem

- It was run by Dorothy Reed.