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Goldfield

Tonopah

Death Valley National Park

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HIGHWAY 95 ADVENTURE: HAWTHORNE,Winnemucca

TONOPAH, BEATTY, PAHRUMP
DISTANCE: 552 MILES: 888 KILOMETERS | NUMBER OF NIGHTS: 2

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Opera House
From Reno, head southeast to Walker Lake, a Nevada desert oasis, where
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at the Death Valley Junction. The opera house is home to Marta Beckett,
you can picnic, boat, swim, or fish. Continue south to Hawthorne, home
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Lovelock
a former Broadway ballerina and artist who has lived and worked in
of the 147,000-acre Army Ammunition Depot and a community that bills
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Death Valley since 1967. She famously painted murals of audiences on
itself as Americas Patriotic Home. Visit the Hawthorne Ordnance Museum
the walls of her opera house so she can always perform before a packed
to see displays of ammunition,
house. Take Hwy. 190 east to Pahrump and have lunch at the Pahrump
military uniforms, photos, and
Valley Winery, a gem frequented by high-rollers at Las Vegas resorts.
memorabilia. Museum buffs
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known as the Queen of the
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Silver Camps, and tour the
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Tonopah Historic Mining Park,
a preserved mining complex turned
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into an open-air museum. Theres also
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the Central Nevada Museum, which tells
the story of the areas mining, ranching, and
pioneer past. Museum admission is free. After the
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sun sets, stargaze under the nations darkest skies
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and discover why USA Today rated Tonopah as the No. 1
stargazing destination in America. Overnight in Tonopah
Panaca
Pyramid Lake

Washoe
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Lahontan
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Walker
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Goldfield

DAY 2
Depart Tonopah, heading south to Scottys Castle a unique
mansion with a colorful history in Death Valley National Park. On
the way, stop in Goldfield. An early 1900s boomtown, it made its mark
on history as the site of the Nelson-Gans boxing match. Today it is home
to the reportedly haunted Goldfield Hotel and other turn-of-the-century
buildings preserved in a state of arrested decay. Continue on to Scottys
Castle off Hwy. 267 near the Nevada border. Here, take a living history
tour of the unfinished mansion construction was halted in 1931
and hear the story of the two men behind the building, Death Valley
Scotty and Albert Johnson, and their Hollywood friends who visited this
remote corner of Death Valley. From Scottys Castle, continue south to
Furnace Creek, headquarters for the Death Valley National Park Visitors
Center, or head east toward Beatty. Take the Beatty turnoff and visit the
ghost town of Rhyolite, one of the most photographed ghost towns in
the West, and the Goldwell Open Air Museum, site of several large-scale
sculptures. Overnight in Beatty

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