Through the Carson Valley, up along the Truckee River and into the desert that tested so many pioneers, we'll explore "old" Nevada in time for the annual Nevada Day celebration. October 2013
Nevada is famous as the host of nuclear explosions at the old test site. But here's another site of an underground test — one that you can visit if you know how to find it. Just don't eat the dirt.
Some days, the best way to enjoy Nevada is to lie on the grass and look around.
There are more than a few surprises inside the brimming Lyon County Museum in the pint-sized farming community of Yerington. It's a bit of a mystery how a copy of "The Mikado" ended up in museum hands, and for now it's in a storage room.
A parade is a parade is a parade, unless it's held in Carson City and celebrates the founding of of Nevada. About the only way to start this sort of day: a pancake breakfast with the governor in an apron.
Nevada has mob, neon and children's museums, but you've got to trek to Hawthorne for a history of bullets and bombs. If nothing else, you won't believe what you can buy there to hold your potted plants.
Here's an animal that can't muster the kind of following as Nevada's wild mustangs, but is due more credit for the workhorse that it has been in the settlement of the West.
When two buddies — one from Sacramento, another from the Bronx — drove off a rural Nevada highway and onto a gravel road, they discovered the crumbling remains of a century-old mining town. But they saw something they liked and decided to move in, pushing the population to 7.
Herb Robbins didn’t necessarily intend to live in a ghost town, much less own much of one. It just kind of happened.
As we begin our third road trip to explore and define Nevada, we wonder what it means to be a Nevadan and what artifacts best define our state. Your thoughts?
Join Matt and Mike's journey with your comments below. Tell them where they should eat, who they should meet or what they should see on this trip, share your experiences with the places they are visiting or explain why Nevada is interesting to you.
