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Approaching Carroll Summit, Nevada State Route 722 (2024). The road just seems to end at the mountains, but then you drive up a series of climbing mountain curves to the summit itself, then down to Middlegate on the other side. You often don't see another vehicle the entire time. I never get tired of driving Highway 722…
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Iron Mountain, Nevada Highway 722 (2024).
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The Road Ahead… Nevada State Highway 722 near Austin, Nevada (2024). One of my fave stretches of Nevada highway; it's appeared here a bunch of times.
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Stokes Castle, Austin, Nevada (2024). A true folly (in the English sense) — quoting the Wikipedia article, it's "[a three story] castle patterned after a tower that Stokes had seen and admired in the Roman Campagna in Italy" standing there on a hill in the middle of the Great Basin Desert just outside Austin, built in 1897. Sadly you're not allowed into it, but I can sort of see why given the state it's in…
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Roadside memorials, Nevada Highway 376, Somewhere, Central(ish) Nevada (2024).
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Nevada State Route 376, Somewhere, Central Nevada (2024).
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Main Street Manhattan (Nevada), May 2024.
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On the outskirts of Tonopah, Nevada (May 2024).
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On the outskirts of Tonopah, Nevada.
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Twenty Miles from Tonopah (US Highway 6, Nevada, 2024).
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In Tonopah, Nevada (May 2024).
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Two queens of Tonopah: The Belvada Hotel (top) and the Mizpah (bottom), on Tonopah's Main Street (2024). The Belvada was in a sad state when I first saw it decades ago; it's good to see it and the Mizpah looking grand.
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Second Street, Berkeley (April 2025). An out-of-sequence posting of the empty old Berkeley Steel site in West Berkeley from this morning, because why not?
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Historic Tonopah Cemetery, Tonopah (2024), right next to the (World Famous!) Clown Motel.
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The inimitable Clown Motel, Tonopah, Nevada (May 2024). Yes, I've taken a bunch of pix of this place over the years (e.g. here), and, yes, it's a lot more self-consciously shiny and less creepy nowadays than it used to be. And I still haven't stayed there. But it's still fun, and as it says, "World Famous"! And it's right next to the large Tonopah Cemetery…
#nevada#desert#great basin#roadside attraction#roadside distraction#treasured institution#nye county
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On the outskirts of Tonopah, Nevada (May 2024).
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A stormy time at the entrance to the Tonopah Test Range (May 2024). This is Area 52 if you're in the know (which I definitely am not 😀). I got hailed on fiercely while the sun was out and the sky was clear above me, with lots of virga all around me, which was a bit spooky, I guess, but more in a Last Wave sort of way. I'm originally from Australia; I'm used to wild weather (and deserts)…
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