Hwy 50

The Lonliest Road

15 Places

Stokes Castle

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

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Toquima Cave

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

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Eureka County Courthouse

The current Eureka County Courthouse replaced an all-wooden structure that had previously been an ice-skating rink.

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White Pine County, Nevada

Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

Sand Mountain

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

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Middlegate Station

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

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Churchill, Nevada

The Shoe Tree of Middlegate

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

U.S. Route 50

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

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White Pine County, Nevada

Hamilton Ghost Town

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

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Garnet Hill Rockhound Area

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

The Bristlecone Pines of the Great Basin

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

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Lehman Caves

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

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Prometheus Tree Stump

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

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Hidden Cave at Grimes Point

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.