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„Storm Area 51“ | Extraterrestrial Highway - Groom Lake (Nevada)

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Groom Lake is a salt flat in Nevada used for runways of the Nellis Bombing Range Test Site airport (KXTA) on the north of the Area 51 USAF military installation. The lake at 4,409 ft (1,344 m)elevation is approximately 3.7 miles (6.0 km) from north to south and 3 miles (4.8 km) from east to west at its widest point. Located within the namesake Groom Lake Valley portion of the Tonopah Basin, the lake is 25 mi (40 km) south of Rachel, Nevada.
When Travel Nevada approached me about tackling a short road trip in the state, there was one famous stretch of road that immediately sprang to mind – the Extraterrestrial Highway. At first, a 98-mile drive may not sound all that impressive, until you learn exactly what the Extraterrestrial Highway is all about. Driving this now-iconic route through the Nevada desert is about so much more than some nice scenery; it’s about journeying into one of the centers of quirky Americana. Yes, a belief in alien life is at the heart of the experience, but so are the people who live and work along the highway, adding their own eccentric personalities to the patchwork quilt of the drive. Traveling along the Extraterrestrial Highway was one of the best travel experiences I’ve enjoyed in a long time, so I thought I’d provide this mini-guide to the road itself, how to drive it, what to see and do and what it means.
When Travel Nevada approached me about tackling a short road trip in the state, there was one famous stretch of road that immediately sprang to mind – the Extraterrestrial Highway. At first, a 98-mile drive may not sound all that impressive, until you learn exactly what the Extraterrestrial Highway is all about. Driving this now-iconic route through the Nevada desert is about so much more than some nice scenery; it’s about journeying into one of the centers of quirky Americana. Yes, a belief in alien life is at the heart of the experience, but so are the people who live and work along the highway, adding their own eccentric personalities to the patchwork quilt of the drive. Traveling along the Extraterrestrial Highway was one of the best travel experiences I’ve enjoyed in a long time, so I thought I’d provide this mini-guide to the road itself, how to drive it, what to see and do and what it means.
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