Twenty-five years ago this summer, Life magazine named U.S. Highway 50, as it crosses Central Nevada, the loneliest road in America. A photo of a straight stretch of empty highway fixed it in the national imagination as a symbol of the state's vast emptiness. To mark the anniversary of the Life photo, columnist Patrick Coolican and photographer Leila Navidi drove the length of U.S. 50 in Nevada to examine issues important in the rural communities along the highway, meet its people and explore loneliness in the hyper-connected age.
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Highway 50 Revisited: America's Loneliest Road
Photo by Leila Navidi / Las Vegas Sun
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- An introspective travelogue across Nevada's obscurity
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Tue, Aug 23, 2011
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Mon, Aug 22, 2011
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Sun, Aug 21, 2011
- Kindness of America reveals itself on loneliest road
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Sat, Aug 20, 2011
- Already isolated, folks in Ely fear loss of air service
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Fri, Aug 19, 2011
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