Nevada hides water where you least expect it. Out past the last gas station, where the map goes mostly blank and the horizon shimmers, there…
A dirt road in central Nevada doesn’t look like the sort of place that ends at a fossil bed, yet that’s exactly what happens here….
Nevada has a way of hiding its best stories down two-lane highways where the gas stations are far apart and the scenery does most of…
A rainy Saturday in Nevada sent me looking for somewhere warm, quiet, and cheap to spend the afternoon. What I found was a public building…
A rainy Tuesday and a wrong turn once landed me in a Nevada strip mall I had driven past a hundred times, and behind an…
Drive long enough across eastern Nevada and the horizon starts playing tricks on you, all sagebrush and heat shimmer and not much else. Then a…
A gravel pullout off a Nevada highway does not look like much until you walk fifty feet and realize the boulder in front of you…
A cul-de-sac in southern Nevada hides one of the sweetest free afternoons in the state, and most people drive right past the turnoff. Behind an…
Pancakes at 2 in the afternoon sounded like a strange plan until I found a Nevada diner where nobody blinks at the request. The building…
Nevada has a reputation for neon and desert, so finding sixty acres of fruit trees inside city limits feels a little like a trick of…
The plan was a quick stop for fresh eggs. What happened instead was two hours spent handing hay to a cow the size of a…
Nevada gets called dry so often that people forget parts of it splash. Turn off a two-lane road in the western part of the state…
Picture a valley in eastern Nevada where the cliffs look like melted candle wax and the cracks between them are barely wider than a backpack….
Nevada has a way of hiding its best bargains in plain sight, usually behind a chain-link fence on a road you have driven a hundred…
A wrong turn off a Nevada highway once cost me an entire afternoon, and I have never been happier about a detour. What looked like…
Driving across eastern Nevada, the highway goes quiet for so long that the first row of storefronts feels like a small miracle. Parking took about…
A wrong turn off a Nevada highway once landed me in a parking lot beside a low brick building with a hand-lettered sign, and two…
Highway 395 in Nevada rolls past ranch fences, cottonwoods, and the long gray wall of the Sierra, and most drivers never tap the brakes. Tucked…
A whistle carries a long way across the high desert of eastern Nevada, and the first time you hear one out there, it stops you…
A quick errand in Nevada turned into most of an afternoon, and it happened without warning. I walked in looking for one cheap jacket and…