Nevada Tourism is highlighting the state beyond Las Vegas with the Free-Range Art Highway road trip.
Nevada is a landlocked western US state bordered by Oregon, Idaho, California, Arizona, and Utah to the east. The four-day trip covers some 500 miles from Vegas to Reno, stopping at sculpture parks, ghost towns and open art.
These include :
Seven Magic Mountains Created by Swiss artist Ugo Rondine and in collaboration with Nevada Museum of Art, Seven Magic Mountains are a permanent and iconic fixture in
the Nevada desert. built from rocks sourced from the surrounding desert that have been
painted in a rainbow of vivid colours.
International Car Forest of The Last Church Just off Highway 95 and located in
Goldfield is one of Nevada’s most unique attractions, the International Car Forest of the Last Church.
A collection of abandoned cars buried nose down, the exhibition was created by longtime Goldfield resident Mark Rippie who wanted to break the Guinness World Record for the world’s biggest car forest.
Goldwell Open Air Museum. This weird and wild One of the park’s most famous
sculptures is a ghostly recreation of Leonardo Davinci’s The Last Supper, originally created in 1984 to last just two years.
The artist, Albert Szukalski, was attracted to the Mojave Desert due to its resemblance to the deserts of the Middle East, and its proximity to Death Valley – a not-so-subtle reference. sculpture park sits just off the road towards Death Valley, and home to seven
huge structures created by a group of well-known Belgian artists, who were drawn to
the remote location to pursue their artistic visions free from convention.
The three-storey high towers sit just off Interstate 15 and stand out against the landscape. More than 40 vehicles make up the forest of cars, each unique in its
design. This ever-changing gallery is free to explore. Open to visitors 24/7, also
with no admission fee, the park’s sculptures are permanent fixtures of the Mojave Desert, including a 25-foot pink woman and a 24-foot steel prospector and a penguin.
Star gazing in Tonopah. Half way up the Free-Range Art Highway and at the beginning of the Extra-Terrestrial Highway sits Tonopah, a place to make a stop along the way and to look up at the skies when the sun goes down.