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When it came to Wisconsin's 10 minute drive to put away the Las Vegas Bowl, I can't tell if this is a bad take or what (probably more accurate to describe this as a desperate take):


https://twitter.com/JavierJMorales/status/1476808842985889793

US 93 North of Vegas is awesome. You go through a bunch of cool little towns all the way up eastern Nevada with Ely being the best one. Then Twin Falls ID and Missoula MT up to the Canadian border where it becomes Canada 93, which runs just west of both Calgary and Edmonton.

Up until the pandemic my only visits through Nevada were about a dozen or so weekends to Las Vegas. Then, because of Covid, when work mandated I drive rather than fly for business trips, I took the chance to drive Nevada’s apocalyptically remote highways. It’s a wonder just how vastly unpopulated Nevada’s desert stretches are beyond its Reno and Las Vegas corners.

I started with traversing Highway 50 because just to see what a 1986 Life magazine article had in mind when declaring it “The Loneliest Road in America.” Subsequent trips unearthed highways even more remote, such as Nevada State Route 375, aka Extraterrestrial Highway that runs over top of Area 51.

For its noted emptiness, Nevada’s picture worthy rural highways are every bit the weird backcountry America of yesteryear: ghost towns, abandoned mineshafts, truck stop brothels (Mena & Amargosa Valley), vast ammunition depots (Hawthorne), Native American reservations in the far north, and swampy bird sanctuaries dotted along Highway 93 toward Ely.

Nevada State Route 375 - Extraterrestrial Highway, passing north of Area 51; never driven a more remote roadway:



Stokes Castle just west of Austin Nevada, a three-level, 1890s-built solo tower overlooking the Reese River valley from the Toiyabe Range to the Desatoya Mountains and the New Pass Range, a visual distance of approx 30 miles:



Ruins of a bank building in the Nevada Ghost town of Rhyolite, on the edge of Death Valley:

Yeah, the Area 51 road is a Mecca for all the alien weirdos. I once saw a gal in a bright green alien mask, a matching bright green thong leotard and bright green tights. People were stopping in droves to get their picture taken with her.

Just off 93 on that road there is a dirt road called Groom Lake Rd that will take you right to the Area 51 fence line.

Ely is the hidden gem. No town that small and remote should ever be that fun. Great little weekend getaway.

I am always a little weary about those Nevada girls. You just never know which ones have done a stint in one of those trucker brothels.

I don't like Las Vegas.  I don't care about gambling and the town is synthetic and boring.

There, I said it.

Uhh, yeah. Vegas sucks.

Unironically, I'd describe it as a shithole.

Aw I like Vegas. Mostly due to all the spectacle and the shows. Just walking around the Strip on a Friday night is plenty o fun on its own.

The strip is full of people. Congested, annoying people. People suck.

Chicago and SoCal are full of people. Congested, annoying people. People suck.

Fify

I don't like Las Vegas.  I don't care about gambling and the town is synthetic and boring.

There, I said it.

I liked Las Vegas a lot more in the late 2000s than I did the last time I was there in 2014. 

And yes, once you get away from the Strip and downtown it's a dirty city that feels like it could get blown away at any time.