Virginia City, Nevada isn’t playing dress-up for tourists—it’s the genuine article, a silver mining boomtown that refuses to fade into the history books. You’ve probably visited places that claim to ...

Standing proudly on B Street, Piper’s Opera House represents the sophisticated side of Virginia City’s boomtown days. This isn’t some modest frontier theater—it was one of the most acclaimed ...

Drying conditions and increasing wildland fire dangers have prompted the Mother Lode Field Office of the federal Bureau of ...

Nicknamed the "loneliest road in America" in 1986, a 287-mile stretch of U.S. Route 50 was once the opposite: a booming ...

Reflections from a road trip to Mono Lake and the Owens Valley, the northernmost reaches of Southern California.

Eerily quiet with not a soul in sight for miles, traveling the Nevada State Highway 50, an “uninteresting and empty” road is a surreal experience.