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The Red Dog Saloon on C Street in Virginia City

The Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City

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Northern and Central Nevada

Reno claims to be "The Biggest Little City in the World" and is indeed busy and growing rapidly, an important crossroads, warehousing, and entertainment center. Many people travel through Reno and across northern Nevada on Interstate 80, the old "Lincoln Highway" that runs coast to coast. This is also the California Trail of covered wagon days, and the route of the original transcontinental railroad.

But far fewer travel Highway 50, known as "the loneliest road in America", or visit the historic mining towns along its route. There are also remnants of the Pony Express in the magnificent empty valleys and long narrow mountain ranges of central Nevada.

There is even a national park out there - Great Basin, high in the Snake Range near Ely. It is one of the least visited parks in the country. At one time the oldest living tree in the world could be found there, a bristlecone pine that proved to be 5700 years old when cut down for scientific research.

Choose one of the localities from the Table of Contents below to see thumbnail images of the VR panoramas.

Table of Contents

North of Interstate 80: The mountains north of the Black Rock Playa; The Black Rock Desert, near Gerlach; Pyramid Lake, north of Sparks on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation; The Owyhee River and the North Humboldt River, between Elko and Duck Valley; Jackpot and Thousand Springs
The Interstate 80 Corridor: Reno and Sparks, Washoe County; The Forty Mile Desert and Lovelock; The Humboldt Ranges, south of Interstate 80 between Lovelock and Winnemucca; Winnemucca and vicinity on the Humboldt River; Battle Mountain and vicinity on the Humboldt River; Elko, the largest town along I-80; The Ruby Mountains, south of Elko, in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest; Wells
Highway 50 - the Loneliest Road: Carson City, state capital; Historic district of Carson City; Virginia City and the Comstock mining district, north of Carson City; Gold Hill and Silver City; Fort Churchill State Historic Park; Reese River Valley and Ione; Berlin-Icthyosaur State Park; Austin, on Highway 50; The Toiyabe Range and the Big Smoky Valley, south of Austin; Eureka, on Highway 50; Ruth, mining devastation west of Ely; Ely, former mining center; Steptoe Valley, the Schell Creek Range and Spring Valley, near Ely; Great Basin National Park, in the Snake Range south of Baker; Baker, small town in the middle of nowhere on Highway 50
Highway 6 Across Nevada: Yerington; Hawthorne; Tonopah, historic mining center; Lunar Crater Scenic Byway, on Highway 6 between Tonopah and Ely; Railroad Valley, the White Pine Range, Currant Summit and the White River

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