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Outside the Cima Store is a pay phone and a very worn sign telling us to preserve our desert (good message)

5902-cima-store.jpg I ride almost five miles up the gentle grade of Kelso-Cima Road to the Cima Store, gaining about 450 feet in elevationThumbnailsAlso by the Cima Store sits an old boxcar or trailerI ride almost five miles up the gentle grade of Kelso-Cima Road to the Cima Store, gaining about 450 feet in elevationThumbnailsAlso by the Cima Store sits an old boxcar or trailerI ride almost five miles up the gentle grade of Kelso-Cima Road to the Cima Store, gaining about 450 feet in elevationThumbnailsAlso by the Cima Store sits an old boxcar or trailerI ride almost five miles up the gentle grade of Kelso-Cima Road to the Cima Store, gaining about 450 feet in elevationThumbnailsAlso by the Cima Store sits an old boxcar or trailerI ride almost five miles up the gentle grade of Kelso-Cima Road to the Cima Store, gaining about 450 feet in elevationThumbnailsAlso by the Cima Store sits an old boxcar or trailer

Since there is no cell-phone reception here, a pay phone is still useful to people with cell phones. Unfortunately, a similarly useful pay phone down at Kelso Depot was removed a few years ago.