Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada is an unincorporated town along US Route 95 (Veterans Memorial Highway), near the state's border with Arizona and California, from which its name is derived.
Las Vegas is about an hour's drive to the north. Searchlight is eleven miles north, and Laughlin and Bullhead City are 25-30 miles southeast.
Cal-Nev-Ari was created in the mid-1960s by Slim and Nancy Kidwell. The couple acquired a 640-acre piece of land from the federal government and developed a pilot community, centered around Kidwell Airport. Originally known as Stage Field, this was an outlying airfield of Camp Ibis, a World War II desert training center. Developed by General George S. Patton, the field was used to train troops from 1942 to 1945.
Over the years, the about a hundred homes have been built, as well as the Cal-Nev-Ari Casino, the Blue Sky Motel, RV and mobile home parks, a convenience store, fire station, community center, and a post office.
The town garnered international attention when the Kidwells put it up for sale in 2016, asking $8 million, although it had been listed for $17 million in 2010.
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The privately-owned airport is located around the unincorporated community of Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada. An aerial photo, sectional chart, and distance calculator are presented, along with its location, and information about airport operations and services, runway information, operational statistics, instrument procedures for nearby airports, ownership and management data, airport communications, and nearby radio navigation aids. METAR and TAF stats are included.
http://www.airnav.com/airport/1L4/
Offering statistics and information relating to the livability, amenities, cost of living, crime rates, employment, housing, schools, and weather in Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada, the site gives the community an overall livability rating. Other resources include real estate in or near the community, and offers the rates and comparisons with other communities in Nevada and the United States for each of the variables mentioned above, including median home values. Readers are invited to rate the community.
https://www.areavibes.com/cal-nev-ari-nv/livability/
Offering advanced flight training, as well as adventure flights, and other air services, Bush Air is based at the Kidwell Airport in Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada. Photos of its hangar and aircraft are displayed, along with an overview of its services, its location, and contact data. Awards and certifications issued to Bush Air or its trainer, Milne Pocock, are featured, along with event schedules, flight reviews, training and aircraft rates, pilot testimonials, videos, photos, and other information.
http://www.bush-air.com/
Cal-Nev-Ari: California Nevada Arizona All in One
The community site advertises area businesses and posts newspaper or other news aggregate reports relating to the small Nevada community, or about nearby areas. A map gives the location of a local restaurant, and its lunch and dinner schedules, hours of operation, and telephone number are posted.
https://www.calnevari.com/
Casino City: Cal-Nev-Ari Casino
The 24-hour casino is located in Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada, offering gaming machines and one poker game, as well as a restaurant and a ten-room hotel. Gaming machines include one dollar slot, six multi-denomination slots, ten nickel slots, fourteen quarter slots, video keno, and video poker. There is a blackjack table and a poker table, a restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and the Blue Sky Motel, adjacent to the casino, on the same property. Rooms may be booked online.
http://nevada.casinocity.com/cal-nev-ari/cal-nev-ari-casino/
Clark County Fire Department - Station 84
Providing fire protection to the airport and surrounding community, the fire station on Apache Road in Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada is staffed by the Clark County Fire Department’s Rural Fire Division. A photo of the station is displayed. Employment or volunteer opportunities are announced, and the station’s emergency and non-emergency contact numbers are published to the site.
https://www.firedepartment.net/directory/nevada/clark-county/cal-nev-ari/clark-county-fire-department-station-84
Historical Marker Database: Cal-Nev-Ari
Highlighting the historical marker commemorating Sage Field, which was an outlying airfield of Camp Ibis, one of eleven camps established within the Desert Training Center, California-Arizonian Maneuver Area during World War II. With the closure of the field in 1945, the land reverted to the Bureau of Land Management and was acquired by Slim and Nancy Kidwell in 1965 under the Pittman Act, who created a private airport and casino, around with a town grew.
https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=78522
