Theme

Land Art

3 destinations along 3 roads

3 land art stops across the guide.

US-951

Goldfield

Goldfield

Once the largest city in Nevada, now a few hundred souls — the purest boom-and-bust in the West, with a castle courthouse still in use, a grand hotel dark since the war, and a desert full of upended cars.

NV-374 / US-951

Rhyolite

Beatty

The most complete ghost town in Nevada — a stone city with an opera house and a marble-stepped bank that rose and died inside a decade, now the most photographed ruin in the West.

Spiral Jetty Road1

Spiral Jetty

Brigham City

Robert Smithsons iconic land art masterpiece on the Great Salt Lake

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Off the Beaten PathFreePhotographyGhost TownsWinterMining BoomWeird & WonderfulYear-Round