Nevada
The canyons can still be seen in Nevada, however they are not its main attraction. The Pony Express Territory brings lots of tourists year-round. The experience for visitors to this area has been described as follows, “Visitors will be rewarded by the almost surrealistic intensity of the wild western landscape, deep blue skies, jagged stone horizons towering above the bone white play as of the valley floors and the hypnotic rhythm of the telephone poles marching single file, in a solemn procession beside the road.”
The historic Lincoln Highway runs from New York to California. In Nevada it followed US 50 from Ely to the beautiful south shore of Lake Tahoe.
Some Route 50 travelers stated "Next stop is CARSON CITY, Nevada's state capitol. As the saying goes in Nevada, 'public business is ruled by the two large cities, Reno and Las Vegas. And Carson City is prospering by the money to run the state. We are proud, we have completed driving The Loneliest Road in America. We visit the state capitol with its silver dome. The first thing we notice is the open-door policy. We can view the office of the lieutenant governor or the secretary of state and can immediately have contact with the governor's secretary. In the cities out west, crime has not escalated to the point where every person has to be behind a security fence to assure safety."
