W ALKING AND D RIVING T OURS YOUR GUIDE TO THE LONELIEST ROAD IN AMERICA P ONY E X P R E SS N E VADA . COM P ONY E X P R E SS T E RRI T ORY OREGON IDAHO TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ........................................................................... 2 WALKING TOURS Wells CALIFORNIA Winnemucca The Town of Fernley ................................................................. 4 Elko Wendover To Salt Lake City History ............................................................................... 5 Battle Mountain The Town of Dayton ................................................................. 6 History ............................................................................... 7 Lovelock Map ................................................................................... 8 Walking Tour ....................................................................... 9 Fernley To Sacramento UTAH Fallon HWY Eureka Reno 50 The Town of Fallon..................................................................16 HWY Austin 50 Ely History ..............................................................................17 Dayton HWY Carson City 50 Map ..................................................................................18 Walking Tour ......................................................................19 CALIFORNIA The Town of Austin .................................................................26 History ..............................................................................27 Map ..................................................................................28 Tonopah Walking Tour ......................................................................29 The Town of Eureka .................................................................33 N Caliente History ..............................................................................34 Map 1 ...............................................................................35 Walking Tour ......................................................................36 Map 2 ..........................................................................42-43 The Town of Ely ......................................................................45 History ..............................................................................46 Las Vegas ARIZONA Walking Tour ......................................................................47 Map ............................................................................48-49 To Los Angeles Ely Outdoor Art Trail ...........................................................54 Ely Outdoor Art Trail Map ...............................................56-57 Nevada Northern Railway Map .........................................58-59 Laughlin YOU REALLY HAVEN'T SEEN AMERICA until you’ve traveled DRIVING TOURS Highway 50 through the heart of Nevada. In 1986, Life Magazine The Pyramid Lake Tour .........................................................61 dubbed this highway, which follows the original Pony Express Trail The Lahontan, Fort Churchill, through central Nevada, the “Loneliest Road in America.” This stretch and Mason Valley Tour .........................................................62 of road is also part of the Lincoln Highway, America’s first paved The Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge coast-to-coast road linking New York with San Francisco. It’s just and Stillwater Wildlife Management Area Tour .........................64 you and the road. History, adventure and intrigue. Do you have The Grimes Point Petroglyph Trail and what it takes? Hidden Cave Tour ................................................................65 Request your “Highway 50 Survival Guide” by visiting The Sand Mountain Recreation Area, any one of the locations listed on the back of this guide, or go to Sand Springs Pony Express Station, PonyExpressNevada.com and we'll send you a “Highway 50 Survival and Desert Wildlife Study Area Tour .......................................66 Kit”. The kit contains brochures and maps that detail places along the The Overland Tour ...............................................................67 route. Travelers can have their Highway 50 passport validated in any The Reese River Valley and five of the eleven communities and outposts including: Carson City, Big Smoky Valley Loop Tour ..................................................68 Dayton, Fernley, Fallon, Middlegate, Cold Springs, Austin, Eureka, Ely, The Toquima Cave and Northumberland Baker, and Great Basin National Park. Validated passports can be Natural History Tour ............................................................69 redeemed for a Highway 50 pin or key chain and an “I Survived The Ward Charcoal Ovens and Cave Lake Tour ...........................72 Highway 50” certificate signed by the governor. The Great Basin Tour ...........................................................73 D ISCOV E R L IF E A LONG T H E T RAIL 1 P ONY E X P R E SS T E RRI T ORY P ONY E X P R E SS T E RRI T ORY O R E G O N IDAHO TO TWIN FALLS TO FIELDS TO JORDAN VALLEY TO MOUNTAIN HOME TO ADEL McDermitt Jackpot Big Spring Denio 292 140 Reservoir Owyhee Denio Jct 225 Jarbidge 93 95 Mountain City New Year Lake Contact 140 White Rock (site) Wild Horse Vya 293 Wilson Reservoir Charleston Res (site) (site) Quinn River Crossing Orovada Summit Paradise Valley Jack Creek Lake Chimney Dam Wilkins Reservoir 226 (site) TO PARK VALLEY 140 High Rock Lake 290 Tuscarora Montello Midas Willow Creek Reservoir TO CEDARVILLE HUMBOLDT 233 ELKO WAS HOE 95 Dinner Station Deeth Wells 231 230 Oasis 789 225 ALT Winnemucca 93 Jungo Halleck Sulphur Golconda 232 (site) 229 (site) Leeville 294 80 80 Snow Water Elko Arthur Lake Tungsten Valmy 766 TO SALT LAKE CITY Spring 95 Creek West Wendover Rye Patch 80 227 Lamoille Reservoir Carlin Gerlach 806 Imlay Mill City 228 229 Battle Mountain 767 ALT Empire Beowawe 400 Lee 93 P ERSHING 305 Copper Canyon Seven Troughs 447 401 Unionville 306 93 Vernon Jiggs Ruby Valley Crescent (site) Valley Oreana bo 278 TO IBAPAH Currie Rochester Goldd AAc e 399 398 (site) (sitsitee Lovelock Flanigan Shantytown Ruby Lake Cortez Pyramid 397 (site) Pyramid (site) LagesLa Station Lake Humboldt 445 Sink Anaho Island Sutcliffe CherC ry LANDERD Creek 446 80 Nixon ALT 95 TO SUSANVILLE EUREKA 447 CCHURCHILL Straw Dixie Valley 278 395 (site) CALIFORNIA Wadswort 445 95 305 Fer o Sparks W HITE P INE 93 ALT Stillwater 95 Y 16 892 Sil TO TRUCKE 121 hontan Sheckle Spri Gill Reservoir Res ells Virgini 893 t ch 431 Incline te 376 TO Village R TAHOE CITY 429 722 n Crystal Bay UTAH 28 on ALT 5 ) 361 Lake use 95 ON LYON Kingston Tahoe CITY Wabuska Glenbr ewart 839 Potts (site) 6 TO DELTA 395 ALT Zephyr a DOUGLAS BakeB k r 95 Quartz Mtn 488 (site) Stat Minden ace 487 Weed Heights Y 894 Gardnerville Schurz M Duckwater TO GARRISON PLACER 206 88 Ione Artesia Preston Lake 844 Lund Shoshone Berlin Gabbs (site) 823 93 Minerva TO WOODFORDS 395 Smith 379 Holbrook Carvers Jct Wellington 208 361 Hadley Currant Topaz Walker Round Lake Lake Mountain 318 338 ekaL reklaW ekaL TO BRIDGEPORT Belmont 6 Lockes Manhattan 95 377 Hawthorne Luning Sunnyside Mina TO BRIDGEPORT Adams- McGill Reservoir 359 MINERAL Nyala (site) Warm Springs (site) 375 TO 95 376 LEE VINING 6 6 Adaven 360 95 (site) Tonopah Basalt Coaldale NYE (site) 6 Ursine Pioche 322 264 773 265 95 Caselton 320 TO BISHOP Panaca 319 LINCOLN TO MODENA 264 Nivloc Silver Peak (site) Goldfield Dyer 318 Tempiute Caliente Rachel 93 E SMERALDA Hiko Crystal Springs 375 317 TO BIG PINE Ash Springs Lida 266 93 774 Alamo Elgin CALIFORNIAGold Point Scottys Junction Upper Pahranagat Lake Lower 267 Pahranagat Lake Carp TO DEATH VALLEY & SCOTTYS CASTLE Rhyolite (site) Beatty 374 TO ST GEORGE Mesquite 15 Bunkerville 168 170 TO DEATH VALLEY Glendale Mercury Moapa 169 Amargosa Valley 160 Logandale Cactus Springs Indian Springs Overton 160 373 93 15 Johnnie (site) 156 95 CLARK A TO DEATH VALLEY 158 JUNCTION 157 93 North Mt Charleston Las Vegas Pahrump 147 372 TO SHOSHONE 159 Las Vegas N Lake Blue Diamond Mead Mountain Henderson Springs 215 160 93 146 TO KINGMAN Sloan Boulder City 95 O 604 Goodsprings 161 Sandy Valley 165 Jean reviR Nelson Z 15 Primm TO BAKER Colorado Cottonwood I 164 Cove Lake TO NIPTON Searchlight Mohave Cal Nev Ari R 95 TO KINGMAN 163 TO BULLHEAD CITY Laughlin 162 TO NEEDLES A TO NEEDLES THE PONY EXPRESS TRAIL, The Old Lincoln Highway, surrounding these communities is just as colorful. Side roads and and The Loneliest Highway in America: with a variety of names, highways branch from Highway 50 and lead to destinations like you would think that Highway 50 might have an identity crisis but Pyramid Lake, Fort Mason, Soda Lake, The Toiyabe Mountain Range, just the opposite is true. This route cuts through the middle of and Great Basin National Park. Pony Express Territory, an expanse of Nevada’s most historic and Today’s travelers can walk in the footsteps of miners, cattlemen, picturesque country. gunmen, and the area’s first farmers. They can drive the routes of Pony Express Territory is home to some of the Old West’s explorers, pioneers, American Indians, and Pony Express riders. Pony liveliest towns including Fernley, Dayton, Fallon, Austin, Eureka, Express Territory offers a glimpse of Old West history along with wide- and Ely. Each of these communities has its own story to tell with open vistas and a variety of recreational opportunities. heroes and villains and times of booms and busts. The country Highway 50. It’s more than a highway—it’s an