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AARoads: U.S. Highway 50 – Nevada; Highway 50 Revisited: America's Loneliest Road from the Las Vegas Sun (August 2011) Loneliest Road: US-50 by Road Trip USA; The Blue Butterfly at the end of the Loneliest Road by Erik Gauger, Notes from the Road; Nevada's "Loneliest Road in America" Celebrates 20 Years Archived 2021-06-14 at the Wayback ...
U.S. Route 50 or U.S. Highway 50 (US 50) is a major east–west route of the U.S. Highway system, stretching 3,019 miles (4,859 km) from Interstate 80 (I-80) in West Sacramento, California, to Maryland Route 528 (MD 528) in Ocean City, Maryland, on the Atlantic Ocean.
US 50 Alt/US 95 Alt southbound, overlooking Silver Springs and the junction of U.S. Route 50. The routing of US 50 Alternate between Fernley and Fallon dates back to the establishment of the Nevada's highway system. The road first became a numbered highway with the designation of State Route 2 in 1917, comprising the western end of the route. [3]
The tunnel dates back to the Lincoln Highway. Originally the Lincoln Highway was routed along a single lane hanging bridge and rock wall built in 1863. [5] [6] Recognizing the inadequacy of the single lane road, efforts began to improve capacity on the primary road to Lake Tahoe. The first bore was constructed in 1931, as part of a ...
U.S. Route 93 Alternate and U.S. Route 93 from West Wendover southward to Ely, Nevada. U.S. Route 50 (aka “The Loneliest Road in America”) from Ely westward across Nevada, to 9 miles west of Fallon, Nevada. From 9 miles west of Fallon to Sacramento, California, there are two Lincoln Highway routes over the Sierra Nevada:
The complex widening of U.S. Highway 50 from downtown Sacramento east to Watt Avenue is progressing as planned and is expected to be completed in the summer of 2025, according to Caltrans ...
The survey ranks Kentucky’s Mountain Parkway as the sixth most feared in the country, just behind Nevada’s U.S. Route 50, a desert highway known as the loneliest road in America.
A two-lane roundabout was built at US 50. [24] [25] The I-80 ramps were also improved due to heavy traffic. [26] [27] At a ribbon cutting ceremony held on August 28, 2017, in anticipation of the completion of construction, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval bestowed the honorary name of "Infinity Highway" upon USA Parkway. [28]