The Great American Road Trip ChallengeOne trip, ~2.5 years, 48 states
Day474

Day 474 — West to Death ValleyRachel & the Extraterrestrial Highway

Drive day2h 45m drive

Out the far end of the highway and down through the ghost towns.

  1. 9:00 AM – 11:45 AM(On the road)· 2h 45m

    Rachel, NV → Death Valley National Park, CACommuting & Travel

    The rest of NV-375 to Warm Springs — where there is a boarded-up bathhouse and nothing else — then US-6 west to Tonopah and US-95 south. Fill the tank in Tonopah; it is the last real town before the park.

Worth pulling over for

On the way, if the timing suits.

Goldfield

Nevada's biggest city in 1906 and nearly a ghost town now — the Goldfield Hotel still stands empty on the main street.

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Rhyolite ghost town

A bank, a jail, a house built of bottles, and a yard of ghostly plaster sculptures, just outside the park's northern gate.

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