Pick Your Scenic Drive

Scenic Drives

Name of Drive

Description

Highlights

Where It Begins and Ends

Length In Miles

Website

Extraterrestial Highway

alleged home of recovered alien spacecraft and hundreds of UFO sightings

Worthington Mountains Wilerness area limestone spires

ghost towns of Tybo & Reveille

Leviathan Cave

Mount Irish petroglyph site

Hwy 375 from near Ash Springs west to Warm Springs

98

800/638-2328

Lake Tahoe National Scenic Byway

one of nations most impressive drives along St Rt 28 and Hwy 50

sand harbor 

emerald bay

from Tahoe City take St Rte 28 north and loop around lake

78  miles round trip(but may take all day)

775/588-4591

Great Basin Scenic Byway

high desert drive on Hwy 93

old mining towns

Great Basin National Park

seven state parks

Ely south to Crystal Springs and back to Ely on St Rte 318

148

755/234-7331

Loneliest Road in America

peace and quite on 50 Hwy

Frey Ranch Distillery

Great Basin National Park

hot springs

Lake Tahoe to Ely

350

800/638-2328

Reno To Yosemite Natonal Park

very scenic mountain drive

mono lake

south lake tahoe

South Lake Tahoe NV to Yosemite National Park CA

215

775/827-7620

Valley of Fire Scenic Drive

drive through multi colored sandstone formation

the beehives

arch rock

white domes road

from Overton south through Valley of Fire State Park

19

702/398-7160

Mount Wilson Backcountry Byway

Wilson Creek Range

Lake Valley

Spring Valley State Park

 

State Rte 322 (begins in Pioche in south to Pony Springs Rest Area at north end)

66

775/289-1800