Route from Great Basin(Ely) to Silver Springs NV

We took "The Loneliest Road" (Lincoln Hiway) across Nevada from Great Basin NP to Sparks last fall. It was a nice ride - some long-ish hills but nothing difficult. Plenty of traffic so you didn't feel abandoned! Stop and get the "Survival Guide" - a passport book you get stamped in towns along the way - nice historic buildings to visit. Old mining towns, pony express stations, transcontinental telegraph route, petroglyphs... Glad we did it! ST

US 50 is a good road. Try to travel during the day as it is not fenced and cattle can be on the road at night. Gas and diesel is available but fill up before night as Eureka and Austin are very small towns that essentially close up at night. Fallon is about 250 miles west of Ely and has 24 hour fuel. For marketing purposes US 50 has been named 'the lonliest road' but recently there is traffic and it is also the cross state bicycle route. It is not all that lonely anymore. Fifteen or twenty years ago it was possible to see as few as three cars on US 50 outside of the towns between the Utah border and Fallon on US 50, a distance of over 300 miles; not so today.

Thanks for the info

Pat

All the towns on 50 have diesel. Smaller towns like Eureka and Austin probably not 24 hr availability.