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Although mining has diminished, it remains a large component of the community and its economy. Though the railroads connecting the first transcontinental railroad to the mines in Austin and Eureka have long been removed, the railroad to Ely is preserved as a heritage railway by the Nevada Northern Railway and known as the Ghost Train of Old Ely. Officials from White Pine County decided to make the best of the publicity generated from the article, and convinced state authorities to do the same. Jointly, they began to use the pejorative article as a platform to market the area for visitors interested in desert scenery, history, and solitude.
The Nevada Commission on Tourism sponsors a promotion where visitors can stop at several designated locations along the route and have the passport section of a state issued "survival guide" marked with a stamp representing that location. Visitors can mail in the completed passport and receive a certificate, signed by the Governor, certifying they survived The Loneliest Road in America. He stopped at Ruth , a small town near Ely. Studying the town, King fantasized about the fate of the residents.
King merged these details into his own story, including references to The Loneliest Road in America, which became the novel Desperation. Travels on the Healing Road , his account of a long-distance motorcycle journey across Canada and the United States. Clarkson stated he was "mesmerised by the straightness of the road. The original routing used what is now US 93 from Ely to the ghost town of Schellbourne and then dirt roads towards Tooele, Utah. In , when the U. They perceived this route as being expensive to build, with no benefit for the state.
Nevada officials, and the Lincoln Highway Association, pleaded with Utah authorities to change their position, even offering funds to help offset the additional cost of paving that route. However, the Lincoln highway directed travelers destined for both southern and northern California on a route away from Utah cities, towards central Nevada.
Utah instead paved the Wendover Cutoff , part of the Victory Highway modern Interstate 80 , that only directed traffic for northern California out of the state. This route serves numerous communities in Utah, but only Las Vegas and a few other small towns in Nevada. The final blow to the original route of the Lincoln Highway was the formation of the Dugway Proving Ground , a military base used for weapons testing, which closed the area to the public.
The biggest change is between Ely and Green River, Utah. The first contiguous route of the highway between these cites followed the modified routing of the Lincoln Highway to Salt Lake City. The route was changed when the more direct route between these cities via Delta, Utah was paved. The edition of the Nevada highway map was the first to show the new routing. Previously, the road to Delta consisted of unpaved state routes.
The paved route did not follow the exact route of the old dirt roads. The border crossing was moved to facilitate an easier route across western Utah. In Utah, the old road traversed a difficult route through Marjum Canyon, while the paved route followed a simpler path along the north shore of Sevier Lake.
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Three different routes have existed between Lake Tahoe and Carson City. This route, which followed Kings Canyon to scale the Sierra Nevada , [51] was severely damaged by a flood in Forest Service still promotes this road for its historical value, but has announced that it will no longer be maintained and travel is only recommended by foot, horse, or four wheel drive vehicle.
Only a small portion of Old Clear Creek Road is currently maintained by the state as unsigned SR , [1] the remainder is an access road for private residences in the canyon. The modern route, also using Clear Creek Canyon, was built in the late s. The original route is now SR From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the section of U. Route 50 in Nevada. For the entire route, see U.
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