Nevada
Past the neon and out the other side — the loneliest roads in America, silver-boom ghost towns, a drowned city under Lake Mead, and the desert the Strip makes you forget.
All of Nevada, One Map
Tap any dot to discover what makes a place worth the stop.
Plan a Trip
Day-by-day plans — real drive times, honest overnights, and the permit fine print sorted before you leave.
Scenic Drives
The roads themselves — traced end to end, with the stops worth making along the way.
I-15: The Virgin River Gorge
Three states in twenty-nine Arizona miles — I-15 threads the Virgin River Gorge, the most expensive rural interstate ever built, following the desert water that drew every road here from the Old Spanish Trail to the Las Vegas Springs.
Interstate 80 — The Humboldt Road
The Humboldt corridor — about 175 miles of Interstate 80 from Wells to Winnemucca, the region's all-weather spine, with the Ruby Mountains, the emigrant trail, the invisible gold, and Jarbidge hanging off it.
Interstate 80: The Bonneville Crossing
A hundred and thirty miles across the bed of a vanished sea, from Elko to the Bonneville Salt Flats — the crossing that nearly ended the Donner Party and, a century later, rehearsed the atomic bomb.
NV-28 — The Tahoe East Shore
The short, blue drive down Lake Tahoe's Nevada side — thirteen miles of granite coves and clear water on the shore the Comstock cut for timber and tapped for water, then sold back as scenery.
Old Highway 40: The Donner Pass Crossing
Forty-six miles over the pass the interstate misses — the Wašišiw summit and its petroglyphs, the tunnels Chinese crews cut by hand, the lake where the Donner Party wintered, and the 1926 arch bridge above it, then down the Truckee to Reno.
The Comstock Loop
The compact circuit the silver built — Reno up the Geiger Grade to Virginia City, down to Carson City and the lake the Comstock logged, then home through Nevada's oldest town.
U.S. 50 — The Loneliest Road in America
The 1986 insult that became an invitation — 320 miles of US-50 across central Nevada, from Fallon to the Utah line, linking petroglyphs, ghost towns, a singing dune, and the state's only national park.
U.S. 50: The Great Basin Crossing
The far end of the Loneliest Road: 150 empty miles from Ely across the Great Basin to Delta and the Topaz camp.
US-93: The Hoover Dam Crossing
The desert run from Kingman to Las Vegas — over the one place where Arizona and Nevada physically meet: Hoover Dam, wedged into Black Canyon, and the reservoir and neon it made possible.
US-95 — The Free-Range Art Highway
Ninety-nine miles of US-95 from Tonopah to the Death Valley line — four mining towns, the International Car Forest and the Goldwell sculptures, and some of the darkest skies in Nevada.
Trails Across the West
Themed journeys that thread Nevada into the wider West — one story, told state to state.
Ghost Towns of the West
The boom-and-bust West in thirteen towns — the silver, the gold, the copper, and every kind of ending.
Dark Skies of the West
The last of the natural night in thirteen stops — from the town that wrote the world's first lighting law to the monument that measured the darkest sky in the system.
Regions of Nevada
Each region gathers the parks, towns, drives, and roadside stops that define one corner of the state.
Cowboy Country
Nevada's northeast — the Humboldt River corridor along I-80, the buckaroo town of Elko and the Ruby Mountains, and the invisible-gold country of the Carlin Trend, all on land the Western Shoshone never ceded.
Las Vegas & the Colorado River
Nevada's far south — beyond the neon, the red sandstone of Valley of Fire and Red Rock, the wall of Hoover Dam, and the long blue reach of Lake Mead.
Nevada Silver Trails
South-central Nevada's mining country — Tonopah and Goldfield, the ghost town of Rhyolite, Cathedral Gorge's clay spires, and the long straight run of the Extraterrestrial Highway.
Reno–Tahoe & the Comstock
Nevada's western edge — Lake Tahoe's east shore, the silver boomtown of Virginia City, and the capital at Carson City, where the Sierra meets the sagebrush.
The Loneliest Road
US-50 across the middle of Nevada — basin and range, basin and range, from Fallon to Ely, with Great Basin National Park and its bristlecone pines at the far end.
Stories from Nevada
The histories behind the places — the people, the disasters, the inventions, and the long memory of the land.
Historical Markers
Roadside history, plaque by plaque — every marker in Nevada, grouped by county and searchable.
Markers of Nevada
Browse every historical marker across Nevada — organized by county, each with its full plaque text.