All of which I intend to explore on future Nevada road trips in search of The Odd and The Wonderful. To help you find these oddities in Nevada – sometimes seemingly in the middle of nowhere, which can be said about much of the state - I’ll start from the south in and around the Las Vegas area. That makes a few of these weird wonders worth a day trip if you are in Las Vegas or even Death Valley. After that, my tour of weird Nevada will move mostly up through the western side of the state along Interstate 95. Exploring the weird, whacky, and unusual in Nevada #AMARGOSA OPERA HOUSE AND HOTEL HAUNTED FREE#īy the way, the travel gurus in Nevada call I-95 the “ Free Range Art Highway,” which may scintillate your senses for some of what’s to come. This building is one of the tallest structures still standing in what was the town of St. Thomas, which was inundated when Hoover Dam was built but is now reappearing. Thomas ghost town – Not officially a ghost town, but I’ll take the liberty of calling it that since there is no soul remaining. Thomas was a bustling little town for several decades after it was founded by Mormon settlers in 1865. Situated at the confluence of the Muddy and Virgin rivers, the soil was fertile. I won’t go into the other crazy things that happened to St. Thomas, but its demise came in the 1930s when Lake Mead was created behind the new Hoover dam. Meaning it wasn’t just deserted like most ghost towns but inundated by water. Today, with the drought and receding waters, however, the ruins of St. Today, you can hike about two miles from an overlook in Lake Mead National Recreation area along the former lakebed and wander among the foundations and ruins. The National Park Service has even set up signs that tell you about the former townsite. To get there: Enter Lake Mead recreation area from Overton, Nev., off 169 (pay park fees, please). A gravel road heads off left from there for about 3.5 miles where it dead ends at an overlook with informational signs.

The park is closed after dark, but sometimes time gets away from you…. #AMARGOSA OPERA HOUSE AND HOTEL HAUNTED FREE#.

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