Timelapse Drive - US Route 50 Nevada "Loneliest Highway"
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- This is a timelapse drive along US Route 50 from Fernley to Ely Nevada. The drive takes about 5 hours, but for this video it's compressed down to 9 and a half minutes. A bit of electronica music accompanies the video to set the mood. Once we get out of Fallon, you'll see why it's called the loneliest highway. Filmed by Michael Adams. Enjoy the scenery.
Not quite sure why all the thumbs down, maybe because it's the crap music I chose...and these people don't have volume controls on their speakers or haven't found the mute button on the video...or maybe it's just too damn fast.
If anyone plans on doing this, you'd better be driving a 70's muscle car while listening to the Doors, Riders on The Storm is recommended.
and Roadhouse Blues
Riders on the storm. There is a killer on the road
And Modest Mouse
I’ve done it several times in my E89 Z4. Doesn’t matter which song over 110mph. Can’t hear a thing. Just see the red mist.
Hell no, the loud engine roar irritates after a while
Honestly there are roads more desolate than this one in the states. I used to live in Elko, NV and have family in Oregon. Past Winnemucca, NV. I always used to take 140 out of Nevada towards Burns, OR and Bend, OR cause 95 is sometimes patrolled... No one patrols out towards Denio. You could drive that for 2 and half hours and see 3-6 cars the entire trip.
The bad thing, the creepy thing, is you can go 120mph and feel like you're going no where. It's surreal out on the salt flats. Between Winnemucca and Denio you can drive as fast as your car will go, and the mountains barely get larger minute to minute. It just feels like you're being completely still because the relative change in perspective is so imperceptible. There is nothing out there.
I've been out by Denio, there is NOTHING there. I also blew thru Frenchglen without slowing down, doing about 100. It's fun.
I used to live in Bridgeport, California and traveled a few times to Boise, Idaho for training. We took the road up to Yerington, to I-80, Winnemucca, Burns Junction, Jordan Valley and finally into the Snake River Valley. It was a long haul and we started well before sunrise, this mostly in the winter when we could take a break from the job and travel to training. I'm retired from the U.S. Forest Service and the training at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise was among the best available. Boise was far warmer than Bridgeport and it was nice to experience that in the middle of the winter. From McDermitt to Burns Junction and through Jordan Valley is wonderfully remote and I always enjoyed the trips.
Another interesting trip is to drive from Cedarville, California to Nevada State Route 140. This takes you on dirt roads through the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge. I'm a bit of a connoisseur of remote country. I lived in two towns of less than 700 people for many years, Bridgeport, California and Magdalena, New Mexico. Both were on the edge of some remote country even though both were located on U.S. Highways.
My definition of a remote place to live (by lower 48 state standards) means you are more than 10-20 miles from a place where you can buy gas, fresh milk, eggs, lettuce, bread, drop your elementary school kids at a bus stop and pick up and drop off mail. The 10-20 miles is dependent on what type of road provides access to this place, be it paved, gravel, dirt and whose road it is, state, county, Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or National Park Service maintained. Often in these remote places your high school aged kids have to stay at a boarding school, which local school districts in remote areas run. My 1st wife taught at one of these.
I want to build a fantastic house here coz am fed up with my country. I want a silent and lonely environment. This place looks very good for me...Lots of Love from pakistan to the whole UNITED STATES.
@@pyrusrex2882 This road leads to INFINITY...
Not if you're doing 274mph in a Koenigsegg
Imagine running out of gas
+guillermo prole I'd love to max out any car on this road but that;s my main fear. Conking out in the dead middle of the route
I bet theres a hermit or 2 around the middle of this long section that has an old gas station at 2x the regular price for those in need.
And imagine a trip on a motorcycle through here when you don't have a gas gauge, just have to estimate how many miles to empty.
ElHugger imagine your car or truck brock down and you had no signal had to call a tow truck rule1 bring extra fuel if your gonna go in the desert
Ouch!
This is why I love America. You could never get this solitude in the UK. When I was in the US last year it was great being in the middle of nowhere.
Gary Howe Wales and Scotland you can. The mountain ranges are awesome. But I agree there's way more of this amazing scenery in the US.
SteelRazorBlade // AdamSRB Haven't driven in Scotland but have driven through North Wales and through Ireland which has great scenery and is really peaceful at places.
Try Canada
Have you been to the USA yet? It is beautiful!
England is a beautiful country. I'd LOVE to live there...
Great video. I drove Highway 50 from grand Junction, Colorado to Reno, Nevada in 1994. It wasn't just a trip. It was an experience. Loved it.
5:18 bathroom break lol
You caught that too
How the hell did you find that out? I couldn't notice it
I'm gonna do this next month .... from Maryland all the way to Sac ...
Did you do it? This lamb has been on every mile of US 50 from Ocean City to Columbus. The worst part of that chunk is from US 219 in Garrett County to I-79 in Clarksburg. Slow, lots of sharp curves, steep hills, etc.
Now? Lol
So did u do it?
One of the best things about there is the nighttime sky you can see stars and Stars and Stripes Forever
Just when I thought "well this is getting kind of rural looking" you came up on a flag man in the middle of nowhere. Cracked me up.
India is a really vast country but u can never find a lonely road as this,even in the most dense areas like rain forest if arunachal I don't think it might be this empty
We really dislike this highway, if you drive faster than 75 MPH(which everyone does) a highway Patrol car will appear out of no where and if you are lucky you will get a warning. This highway pays their salary.
5:05 speed limit 70 (slow it down to see)
Drove it several times. Wasn’t wasting no time. Never saw a cop. Did see 130 though.
Could you imagine the pioneers coming across this on horse back and wagon. And with teenagers. OMG I'd be think'n what have I got myself into.
HAHA never thought of it that way :)
After watching a BUNCH of Western movies, and just hearing about the Pony Express station guy that was murdered in cold blood, all the horses stolen, it brings the reality of the pioneer's life in to focus. Besides that, I can't stand to eat dead animals or drink coffee and liquor, so I might go really really hungry. One guy wrote that he ate wolf soup. Yuck.
Video is moving at 1653.45 mph. Cool.
No wonder I couldn't react in time at the corners. Thanks.
And then ur just stuck there and nobody else is out there to help you
WOW , a lot of activity on that road for being " the loneliest road". Not too lonely.
Now Oregon has some lonely roads. 100+ miles between towns with NO traffic ( Lakeview to Burns OR. 139 miles NO traffic -- None)
Yeah but does it have wide open plains like this, or is it mostly trees and mountains? The wide open, empty spaces are a big part of what make it feel so lonely. It's not just about numbers of people. It is also the psychological effect of having an unimpeded view to the horizon.
I was watching this very intently and that traffic light in Fallon, NV about gave me a heart attack.
thanks for the ride, I enjoyed it! I would love to ride my Harley on this road one of these days! its on my bucket list!!
Route 50...I reckon you're safe if your intention is to bury someone
Find an old mine shaft quarter stick of dynamite it's gone forever just saying Iv never done it
Watched it in 2x speed. It was one hell of a roller-coaster ride!
Imagine having your car break down here
The horror, the horror.
eduardo ramirez breaks down during the night
I think I counted about 80 vehicles in the opposite lane between Fallon and Austin, more than 100 miles, and many of them were traveling in groups of 2 or 3. Yikes, that's lonely all right! Fantastic fun to watch.
I like it. I lived in Nevada for 20 years prior to moving. It is an interesting state even with all the difficulty of making a living there. Thank you for posting the video. I drove that route back in '98. From Ely to Reno. You have to take the time to appreciate the scenery miles you put in along your life way. :)
So beautiful... I wanna go there once more, enjoy it more, just vast emptiness and relax
Many years ago, I did this drive, all the way from LA, back to Denver. --------It was gorgeous. You just have to be prepared,, & have supplies, in case. -------Listened to a novel on tape the whole way. -------------------WolfSky9, 72 y/o
Wow, you were driving so fast you must own a Bugatti Chiron!
Just look at this big blue sky... It must feel like flying in this road...
I remember driving with my parents through Bosnia in 2003 something like that over thr mountains where Manitu was filmed. There where some areas lonely like in this video or even lonelier.
...I liked the background music
You're about the only one that does mate !
I liked it. What was it?
So did I, and I'm picky. Though I will admit that this is the only soundtrack you've used that I liked.
@@mattallen8136 A tune by Head Jello.
This is the single best timelapse drive I have ever seen. I love Nevada, the desolation, and the music you put to it. That was perfect. I used to watch a video of a guy driving the Dalton in Alaska set to a Roger Miller soundtrack, but this has it beat.
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I've actually started watching his videos in the last couple days, they are also very good. I also appreciated seeing a glimpse Sand Mountain out past Fallon, that would be a fun place to take my Banshee. I've recently come to love Nevada and its isolation and old ghost towns out in the middle of nowhere. I've had a Nevada road trip on my mind for a while now, where I would explore all the little used and forgotten state routes that crisscross the state. The climate in SW Idaho (my home) isn't much different, but Nevada is just more beautiful. This video kinda ignited that little fire in me, I've seen it many times.
I'm watching this for about the thousandth time. About 300 before I realized this goes right by sand mountain.
Very Nice! Been thinking about taking that route one of these days. Looks lonely, but also looks like you can add some speed too.
What's the point of a speed limit? Lol
There is no speed limit there when I grew up there we drove as fast as we want to do fuck the police
Royal Allred people who say that are idiots
The point of a speed limit is this..........
45 MPH is 237,600 feet per hour or 66 feet per second.
60 MPH is 316,800 feet per hour or 88 feet per second.
75 MPH is 396,000 feet per hour or 110 feet per second.
Now regardless of the possibility that someone might be coming in the opposite direction in a larger, heavier, sturdier vehicle would you rather lose control of your vehicle at 66 feet per second or 110 feet per second?
In some stretches of this road you could regain control at 66 feet per second. In other stretches you couldn't. In many stretches of this road you can't do jack to stay on the road at 110 feet per second if you lose control for even 1 second.
Now imagine that in some areas of this road you wouldn't see another human being for 10 - 20 minutes at a time during the daylight hours and you wouldn't see another human for hours at a time during the overnight hours.
Even if the high beams on your vehicle work and you signal morse code distress calls to anyone that might be able to see your headlights, at 1AM the only vehicles that WOULD see your lights would be 31,000 feet up traveling at 500 MPH.
By the time anyone acknowledges that you ran off the road, you (or someone else in your party) could be "hurtin' big time" for a LONG TIME into the future.
@@alexandra.willitts6988 you're no fun
Damn, people in Nevada really do be driving fast tho
Thanks a lot. I love Hwy 50, east of Fallon, especially at night. Now I can get my fix here, without hitting jackrabbits, thump thump.
wow....thanks for uploading. was debating taking a motorcycle on the 50 or the 80 across nevada. leaning on the 80 now, those are giant giant expanses of nothing and i have small gas tank.
You really got to make sure your gas tank's full man. I got a little car sick, but this is a cool video for sure. My beautiful great aunt lived out her 100+ years in Lovelock Nevada. It really is beautiful country. 🎉❤
The hills have eyes
Pill Cosby what did you smoke? Pills? What pills did you take P I L L cosby?
this is your chance to eye-witness the visual equivalent of driving through NV on I-50 at 1800 m.p.h.; that is Mach 2.34. [I did the math!] Thank you Michael Adams for filming this. It's a delight. (wife and I are driving I-50 next week :-)
Great video! I wrote new novels by reffering this video. Thank you! I've felt like I'm driving route 50!
Ahh! This is the exact same road I believe that CGP Grey drove Bailey Blue the Tesla through; his timelapse was like 3 hours long but that was for the whole trip of Silicon Valley-Moab-LA. Even then though his timelapse was considerably slower than this; even when it's sped up this fast some of those salt flats still take a good while to get across! Interesting to see how different his video looks to this; his videos had far better camera equipment and the weather was much different but even then it still seems like a few things have changed between this video and CGP Grey's roadtrip (2012 vs 2017) e.g. there are no solar and wind farms in this video but there were quite a few in CGP Grey's video.
You drive really fast. Cheers!
No need. I find the loneliest place in the world when I close my eyes
Nice video, U.S.A is beautiful.
Sassybumble. If you see circles in the dirt, it is where helicopters land, or if it is a crop... The sprinklers only move in circles. This was fun to watch because I'm a resident of Nevada but have never been that far down that Hywy.
Just guessing, all the "thumbs down" are probably for the same reason folks despise this kind of a road trip in real time. A whole lot of nothing. Personally it is my favorite so we both must be the same brand of weird. Recommend when you get to the "town" footage simply set the playback rate to .25. I've been in love with Austin since the day I first saw it. Just can't imagine how I'd manage my health care issues living there.
I took this trip in my RV going the opposite direction on my way to Burning Man. Thanks for the Memories!
Great video. Hypnotic.
Thoroughly enjoyed your video of US Route 50.
I drove the road yesterday.
Two years ago I drove US Route 6 traveling from Yosemite National Park to Ely. US 6 is about 100 miles south of US 50 and both roads converge in Ely.
In Ely, Nevada I saw t-shirts and Passport book promoting US Route 50 as "The Loneliest Highway in America". When I asked the hotel clerk in 2011 about Route 6, she replied, "It's even lonelier."
US Route 6 is truly the lonelier and more remote highway than US 50.
Good Job! Your time laps is the best that i have seen so far.
I watched this video while listening to Dark Train by Underworld, its simply incredible.
I like when viewers suggest better music, rather than grizzle about the royalty free piece I put with this. Thank you.
Nite driving is like OMG??????
Yes...proved it ....it is lonely and beautiful as its scary. Wow route 50.💝💝😘😘😘😘😘😍😍😍😍😘😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
This is seriously in the top 10 best videos on youtube...damnit I wish I didn't live so far away!
Seriously ? I wish I could take credit for filming it. It now features as bonus footage in a DVD I produce. Looks good in HD on a big screen.
ok... thanks for the vid. In Reno now and thinking about using it tomorrow to get to Utah. Trying to avoid going north via WY?oming.
I grew up in Ely Nevada I lived in almost every town on that loneliest Road in America the only one I didn't live in which Austin great place to grow up a lot of lot of money working in the gold mine
Did it on my Harley. Awesome road trip.
Nice, that saves me a trip 👌
Great video! Reminds me of Knight Rider
I’m seriously considering taking this trip on my next vacation.
No small wonder it's called the loneliest highway 🤔😱🤨🥴🙏🤣 . PS, I was feeling that music. good choice 👍👌😉
The famous photo at 5:05? I look forward to driving on this road going west sometime.
I bet you were thinking about the one with a McLaren P1, with the UK plate P1 OOV, shot at night.
Amy and Roger's epic detour brought me here 😊
No, not a fan of the music either, but love how the dashed yellow road dividers seem to stay still while blasting down the highway. Thanks for bringing back memories (both good & bad) of road travel of a former Nevada resident! 2:13 LOL
The Mute button is your friend.
As little traffic as this hwy carries , as small as the towns are , as desolate and unproductive as the land is, I sort of have to wonder why was us 50 ever built and why it is being maintained today
Also is there any cell phone service between the towns. What about health care facilities I have seen reference to entire counties that don't have any. Are there any repair shops along the way in case something goes wrong. Nice way to get some solutide all right and I did drive it something like 50 years ago. But wouldn't today to much possibility of things go wrong and possible consequences if they do.are too great.
Something about lonely roads feel so great, but I haven't even experienced it yet and the closest I got is a 2 hour drive like 40 km (24 miles) and there was a long highway but with multiple cars and a few small houses and stores
I liked it
This is a nice time-lapse video. Wow, I'd really like to go to United States! Video liked!
Hotter than hell, sand blowing every where, kids so dam mean, hating this drive.
That's crazy, my family used to live a couple blocks from the McDonald's and I went to school next to the Jack and the Box at :58 at the light.
This is epic! Bucket list drive for me.
Thanks for uploading, mate.
This shows how it looks like when you fly about 2.5 times faster than sound speed.
Loneliest Hwy in America is Hwy 6 from Ely to Tonapah nevada
Thanks! That helped me pinpoint the exact spot where I found a button from a miner's coat, along with an empty shell produced lastly in 1910.
that's an awesome video. I did this drive going East like the video Nov 2, 2014 in my mustang. It looked crystal clear just like this video.
For those who are looking, that's the part where he/she stops to take a leak 5:19
Couldn't you just go full speed at these roads?
Most towns in Nevada were formed in the late 1800's to early 1800's all due to gold, silver or copper. that runs out, instant ghost town or one that just survives for tourists and a few cattle ranchers.
That was cool. I was on that road a few years ago but there was more snow on the ground. It IS a very long drive.
been searching this trip because I will be taking it in a few days from Texas to Sacramento. I guess I should make sure I have a full tank of gas before taking this road.
Sorry - don't know. A friend of mine filmed this, I just put it to music, added subtitles and uploaded it, so I don't know how fast he was driving.
Great Job!! I will be traveling this next month and was wondering what the drive was like. I've taken 80 from SLC to Reno.
Now iv seen the layout of the road, you can see why when they filmed Top Gear there, the whole day was spend just on that one stretch of road, even when they were 'racing" in the mountains it was the same road. The trickery of editing.
Drove this route at night. Kinda wish I'd had the views in the sunlight but there's something about driving in pitch black with nothing but static on all the radio stations.
Fuck no. I've driven through parts of Indiana on the expressway at night...nothing to light the night...would sure as hell never go on a stretch like the one you went on at night without knowing the terrain. Ponds and ditches can appear and you'd never know it until you are in them. No Thank You.
US 97 in Oregon is pretty lonely
Awesome video, I love every second of it!
Fine vid. I must agree with others though that "Loneliest" moniker is a bit PR. I counted at least 90 vehicles coming at you (I know I missed some, too), and with time compression of 1:32, that means another lonely vehicle appeared about every 3 to 4 minutes. Plus there were a couple tiny towns in between. Our trips through Wyoming, South Dakota, parts of Utah, and other western states seem much lonelier -- I can remember 10 to 15 minutes going by without another vehicle appearing, and absolutely no towns forever. We still plan to drive it later this year, just so we can say we did.
Did you ever go?
The wide open, empty spaces are a big part of what make it feel so lonely. It's not just about numbers of people. It is also the psychological effect of having an unimpeded view to the horizon. You do not get the full effect of the vast amount of flat space that is visible to the eye all at once from watching a video. Plus, some days are busier than others. The owner of this channel said in another comment that this was shot before Christmas, so this is showing holiday traffic. I once drove this road and at one stretch I didn't see another vehicle for 53 minutes.
Yesterday marked the 10th year of this video.
Thanks for reminding me how much I've aged...
@@ejvideos07 your welcome
id be going like 150 on that road
+GregoCatal so what's the speed limit there?
***** well that sucks, doing 75 over 3000 miles will kinda take a really goddamn long time
***** buuut there is no traffic so what are you gonna eyeball xD
Radar Detectors ARE NOT banned in California so stop the disinformation! They are ONLY unlawful in VA, D.C. and on military bases. Nevada HP loves their Ka band , so if you've got a great long range detector like a segged Redline, you're good to go out there.
I think he just pulled over to empty his bladder - or take a photo...
nice road with not too many people on it! I'm from nj I can't comprehend it.Also nice video.
Never been to the States. Nor have I travelled this far by car cause in my country.. It only takes an hour to travel across. Cool vid!
i really liked this but you should have slowed down to normal speed when going thru the towns....would have liked to see what they looked like and what was there
Very cool video
You even call roads with only one lane per direction a "highway" over there? What's the speed limit?
Mostly 70 mph. (110 km/h)
Been there, drove that, and it was very cool!
I always get Fernley confused with Fallon because they both start with F.
I drove that road in 2016 where the clouds look flat as pancakes.
I'd do a hundred the whole time there are no cops
+Aidan Cremin Just did this drive last month and saw the same cop pull over two different vehicles at two different times.
Imagine you crash somewhere and your car has to be towed
Nice video. Thanks for posting.
great video i love roads and cross them !