America's Loneliest Road: U.S. 50 and the Lincoln Highway in Nevada

U.S. Highway 50 in Nevada has been called America's loneliest road. There are other lonesome stretches of highway, but the band of asphalt from the Utah state line to Lake Tahoe is more than worthy of the title. For vast distances, it extends toward the horizon in an unbroken line, attended only by sagebrush, all-but-deserted mining towns, and empty spaces. The high desert of eastern Nevada is populated mostly with wild horses, antelopes, jackrabbits - and perhaps even a few ghosts. This pa...