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Terrible's Road House is a gas station in Jean, Nevada off Nevada State Route 161. It contains the World's Largest Chevron and is a tourist trap for people traveling from Las Vegas to California, being about 30 mi (48 km) south of the former. It has 96 pumps, 60 restroom stalls, and a 50,000 sq ft (4,600 m 2) convenience store.
U.S. Route 93 was not one of the original U.S. highways proposed in the 1925 Bureau of Public Roads plan. [citation needed] However, the revised numbering plan approved by the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) on November 11, 1926 established US 93 from the Canada–US border near Eureka, Montana south through Montana and Idaho to a southern terminus at Wells, Nevada. [4]
At the Nevada–Utah border, the highway passes by Border, Nevada, with a gas station and restaurant. [30] This portion of the highway is mountainous with the highest point along US 50 in Nevada at Connors Pass at 7,729 feet (2,356 m). [3] This section has been designated a Scenic Byway by the Nevada Scenic Byways program. [31]
Middlegate Station is a rest stop/commercial area with a gas station, bar and restaurant, motel and RV park. Stephen King stayed at the Middlegate Station motel for seven days and wrote a portion of Desperation. [2] Middlegate Station was the location for Black Road, Gregory Hutton's award-winning 2002 short film starring William Nilon. [3] [4]
Ruins of the Cold Springs Pony Express station built in 1860. Cold Springs, less commonly known as Rock Creek, was established as a station along the Pony Express express mail route in March 1860. In 1861, a repeater which would eventually serve the first transcontinental telegraph was built about 1.5 mi (2.4 km) northwest of the Pony Express ...
US 93 south of Lages Station: 1976: current SR 895: 1.481: 2.383 ... Reno, Nevada in Maps: Nevada Highway Maps - 1917-2005 Archived June 20, 2016, at the Wayback Machine;
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U.S. Route 95 enters Nevada near Cal-Nev-Ari in Clark County and heads north towards Railroad Pass, where it meets Interstate 11 and US 93.. The three routes are then co-signed in the Las Vegas Valley and east of Henderson, I-11 is co-signed with US 93/95 for its entire route around the eastern Las Vegas Valley.