NEVADA GHOST TOWNS & BEYOND

Thank you to my friend Mathew, the executive director of the Nevada Offroad Association. He invited me on the Pine Nut Mountains Trails Association Father's Day weekend ride. NVOR is a non-profit that advocates for off-road use in the legislature and acts as an intermediary to support responsible off-road activities. Saturday, we started at the Johnson Lane OHV trailhead. We traversed the ... VIEW POST

Rising from the Nevada desert, like a mirage along I80, is Thunder Mountain. Creator Frank Van Zant, known as Chief Thunder, created the one-of-a-kind Nevada monument. He turned trash into a wonderland of art, a fusion of industrial art meets The Flintstones. Ghost Towning Growing up in Idaho, I spent many summers driving across Nevada to visit family in the Gold Country. We would stop ... VIEW POST

Outside of Dayton, adjacent to an industrial complex and surrounded by sagebrush, are the easily overlooked rock foundations of Adobe Station. Without the Trails West marker, the site would fade into the Nevada desert. Station stops were an essential feature on the emigrant trails; they enabled pioneers to resupply along their journey. Carson River Route After the horrors the Donner-Reed ... VIEW POST

Unusual finds dot Nevada's roadsides: UFOs hanging from the back of a tow truck, gigantic memorials built from trash, and a downed airplane in front of Angel's Ladies brothel. Upon first seeing the abandoned plane, I thought it might have been a publicity stunt; little did I realize how big of a stunt it was. North of Beatty, a Beechcraft C-45 sits on the side of the highway at a 45-degree ... VIEW POST