Back in the 1980s, LIFE magazine quoted an American Automobile Association representative regarding the 260-mile segment of Highway 50 that meanders across central Nevada between Ely and Fallon: “It’s totally empty. There are no points of interest. We don’t recommend it.”
Well…horse feathers.
Eureka, which straddles that lonesome highway some 75 miles west of Ely, is one of the
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