Hey Kyle, I drove this road a few years ago, about a month earlier than you did. However, I came up from Tonopah, visited Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, and joined US-50 at Middlegate, spent a night in Austin, and went all the way to Ely before heading back down towards Las Vegas, where I lived at the time. What a magnificent drive. A suggestion for you... Take the drive south from Moab on US-191 through Monument Valley to Kayenta on the Navajo Reservation. You'll especially want to see Forrest Gump Point where he stopped his run in the movie. It is a special place and the drive is very scenic.
Thanks for showing us this ride over The Loneliest Road in America. I enjoyed it very much. Thanks also for the information at the end about Austin. It's always nice to read about other places in the USA. Greets from the Netherlands.
Hope that Nevada State Route 839 will be extended to US-95 in Hawthorn Nevada from US-50 between Fallon and Austin. Currently, NV-839 is 20 miles long, and the pavement ends south of Churchill County/Mineral County.
Great vid. It's pretty funny to me how the 'lonelist road in America' is comparable in terms of remoteness and traffic volume to any highway in the Aussie outback lol, even the major ones. The scenery is superb!
The ironically of that Life mag article about US 50 is that it actually encouraged drivers to actually drive it- to the point that one can question the need of the title- esp give that US 6 farther south is even more desolate than US 50.
US-6 has 168 miles with NO SERVICES between Tonopah and Ely. I think that is the longest stretch you can drive in the Lower 48 without services. I'm surprised they never made that road the Loneliest Road in America in the first place.
Good video, though the music was kind of... generic. (Though I do understand why). If I do this drive, I'll have my smartphone, plenty of gas and supplies, and a decent collection of '80s rock on my playlist to make things go by. Nice you mentioned NAS Fallon: I have a cousin who's a Naval Aviator, and she has trained there several times. Lots of low-level training, and they do use traffic on the roads for FLIR (Forward Looking Infrared) practice. The range where live ordnance is dropped is well south of the highway. You also mentioned stargazing: find a pullout along the highway, set up, and just look up at the sky...(and who knows what else you might see....)
@27:03, what is that hangar/tent-shaped building on the left that looks like an onion/Hershey's Kiss? I seen one when I was in NV going south on Hwy 6 from Ely to Tonopah
I want to drive this late November /. Early December on way to southern Utah. How is the road then Especially over the higher passes. If a storm comes through do that plow road? Would be driving alone pulling my travel trailer.
I am very interested in purchasing the newest home possible in the Dayton area of Nevada which is near Carson City and Reno. But my main concern is TRAFFIC🤢🤮😬. I don't want to deal with traffic gridlock, signals. I hate long lines and having to wait and not find parking. Is Nevada an automobile friendly state with smooth paved roads without potholes and stupid emissions laws? Cost of living? In all of the above issues I mentioned, is it better than COMMIEFORNICATE?🤢🤑
Nevada is a blue state. I don’t know about emission laws but whenever California passes a law Nevada seems to follow suit a few years later. All the Californians moving to Nevada have really shifted the states politics much farther to the left than you might think.
@@InterstateKyle Oh no😱🙀🙈 In that respect I would be better off in Idaho, Montana or Wyoming??🤔 I was hoping traffic was non existed because of the loneliest highway and I suffer from traffic anxiety, and prefer less people so small towns would be better like perhaps Dayton?🤔