Nevada Lincoln County

Ore tramway crossing over Boothill section of cemetery.

Looking south from the lower segment of the regular part of the cemetery.

Looking east, over the former grammar school, from Pioche, NV -- at sunset.

Just east of Rachel there are signs for a housing development, Lincoln Estates. The website for the development describes a subdivision of 1000 lots on 1000 acres, with a shopping mall and casino on the highway. This is where the housing would be. The development also describes this as a 2 hour short drive from Las Vegas. It's 151 miles so you'd have to average 75, which is higher than the posted speed limit. Also, knowing Las Vegas traffic, this would not be a pleasant 2 hour drive.

Just east of Rachel there are signs for a housing development, Lincoln Estates. The website for the development describes a subdivision of 1000 lots on 1000 acres, with a shopping mall and casino on the highway. This is where the shopping mall would be. The development also describes this as a 2 hour short drive from Las Vegas. It's 151 miles so you'd have to avereage 75, which is higher than the posted speed limit. Also, knowing Las Vegas traffic, this would not be a pleasant 2 hour drive.

Thunderstorms over the desert west of "Lincoln Estates" near Rachel, NV

In the distance, the urban core of Rachel, NV

Rachel is best know as being the nearest location to Area 51, which is assumed (by some) to be the location of UFO's captured or found in the U.S. The proximity to Area 51 is the reason that NV375 is know as the "Extraterrestrial Highway"

Spaceship parking, Rachel, NV.

UP railroad overpass south of Caliente, NV. Due to high water, the overpass is flooded.

Rainbow Canyon, south of Caliente, NV. The canyon contains a primary rail link for Union Pacific.

Abandoned farmhouses south of Elgin, Nevada. These are in the southern, and drier, parts of Rainbow Canyon (see adjacent pictures). I always find it intriguing to visit these sites where the various ruins and remaining debris suggest that, at some time in the past, these had been active, thriving, homesteads. The isolation, particularly at the time that these were built, is always an interesting reminder that the priorities of daily life must have been very different in those times. (I suspect these were last occupied in the 1950's or earlier.)

Spring Valley Cemetery, an abandoned cemetery on Mt Wilson Backcountry Byway near Pioche, NV.

A 'human-like' rock formation. From some angles the two rocks to the left of the center of the picture look like one person holding another.

Coming down from Mt. Wilson, which is north of this, this looks like a giant hand.

Spring Valley, NV, east of Pioche, NV