Nicknamed the 'loneliest road in America' in 1986, a 287-mile stretch of U.S. Route 50 was once the opposite: a booming thruway of the 1850s Gold Rush. In 2019, photographer Mathias Svold drove the highway, documenting life in small towns along the way:
, the Roaring Road became so congested at times that hopeful miners and their families would have to wait days before they could access it—a Panama Canal of sorts, standing between the new frontier and the old.’s first State Highway and eventually connected the nation’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The California Department of Transportation has called Route 50 the “backbone of America.”
That’s precisely the draw for some of its residents. “There's just a mystique about Nevada,” says Helming. She moved to Austin, one of the few towns along the highway, in 1981 and owned a laundromat, a bed and breakfast, and a cafe with her husband, Kip.
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