Posted on 03/05/2019 12:43:14 PM PST by rktman
Where the state of Nevada folds in half—from the elbow on its western arm at Lake Tahoe across to its Utah border—you’ll find the most direct route across the state. It crosses several communities, a handful of mountain ranges, a national park, and one reservoir, where bobcats, foxes, and wild horses roam free. There’s life, yes, but not a familiar way of life for many. It’s a place where the lines between John Wayne Westerns and everyday life blur, where ghost towns bleed into living ones. This is Route 50, the Loneliest Road in America.
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Dam!
Thanks.
I can vouch for I70 across Kansas. Man there ain’t nothin’ out there for a long long time!
Yes there’s a number of them in New Mexico. I’ve driven 100 miles here and not seen another car on occasion. We’re a big state with not many people (and most of them are in what we call “cities” here). I can’t get cell reception at my home, and I’m only 15 miles from Albuquerque.
Harding County is over 2000 square miles and has about 600 residents.
Plenty out west that close for the winter yet some nitwit gives it a try.
I had a harrowing experience about 25 years ago hiking a trail in northern New Hampshire (not far from Maine). A snowstorm barreled in quicker than expected and by the time I made it back to the trailhead, my car was buried in six inches of fresh snow and it was getting dark. I managed to get back to the main highway but had several miles of unplowed back road to travel on. Almost went off the road several times and if I did, it might have ended badly.
This was before cell phones and GPS. Had my Rand McNally maps to get around!
$2.89ish in the Reno area.
“I know Costco is on the FR blacklist but I always buy there when I can, it’s the cheapest and Top Tier.”
I did not know that FR was in the business of blacklisting businesses? Yeah the management of Costco are most likely Liberals, but they run a damned good business. Here in Danville, CA we were lucky enough to get a Price Club store to go in right on our border with San Ramon decades ago. It’s now a Costco, and it provides 35% of the sales tax revenue for The Town of Danville all by itself. Why anyone would turn down a $.40 to $.50 cent a gallon reduction in their gasoline purchases would amaze me in today’s high-cost world.
Had one.
Thanks for the fascinating and somewhat scary responses.
Can’t picture it.
Though not to dangerous extremes, I wish there were some roads anywhere near here where one can find absolute quiet and peace.
I’ve been in traffic jams HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS of times at 3 or 4am in the morning going to Staten Island from work in Manhattan.
Always told the foreign driver to take the 3rd Avenue brooklyn exit right out of the tunnel but 9 times out of 10 they just didn’t understand what I was saying and we’d rot on the BQE.
Years ago I started keeping a list of every retail outfit that was trashed by someone on FR for some liberal affiliation. Pretty quickly every major name was on the list, LOL.
I’ve been on some lonely roads, but never on any roads that have NO cars at all. the most desolate were some roads in Colorado with high passes that were closed. Locals know not to go up them, and there aren’t tourists in the mid-spring months to go snooping on them.
The loneliest non-mountain stretch of highway I’ve been on is a north-south strip of Nebraska near the Wyoming border. Endless miles of grass...
I bet the Alaska-Canada highway wins for boredom, though I’ve never been up there. Days and days driving through forest.
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One of the longest limited access roads in the US is the Florida Turnpike from Yeehaw Junction to Kissimmee.
I think it about 45 miles or so with no exits.
The land is flat, the road is mostly straight, and Brazilian Holly lines side of the road most of the way. Boring. Boring. Boring.
I live in such a remote area that a 10 minute drive in any direction from my house takes you a very quiet and lonely area.
Just read that the Sierras have had 16 feet of snow in the past 18 days! Damn that Gobull Warming!
LOL! Done it more than once but never saw it empty.
2.89 thats cheap gas for California...I paid 5 dollars when I was out there
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