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Ely, Eureka, Fallon, to Sacremento via Reno The Loneliest Highway, US 50 & I-80

The Loneliest Road in America is also one of the oldest highways in Nevada. Labeled the Loneliest Road by a journalist some 20 years ago, it was also the route of the Lincoln Highway. In 1925 when the name highways were changed to numbers, the Lincoln Highway was changed us US 50. Today traveling on US 50 you are traveling on a long section of the original route of the Lincoln Highway, which affords a rare chance to travel a long section of the Lincoln Highway today as it was when it was still called the Lincoln.

Looking for the shortest route from New York to San Francisco, the Lincoln Highway leaders pick old stagecoach and freight routes as the new transcontinental highway for what was to part of first paved road coast to coast. The Lincoln Highway help make many improvements to this section with some financial support from the Lincoln Highway trust fund. In 1913 when this route was picked there was the same critics saying the same thing that there was nothing to and warning travelers only to go if they had survival skills. Well that is what makes this section of the Lincoln Highway (US 50) great. There is nothing to compare with it. The Lincoln Highway Guide had a list of things for survival.

• DON'T DRINK THE ALKALI WATER AS IT CREATES CRAMPS
• DON'T DRIVE ACROSS ANY WATER WITHOUT FIRST WALKING ACROSS
• TOP OFF THE GAS TANK EVERY CHANCE YOU GET

The Lincoln Highway pre-dates US 50.