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UFO Stopover Loop, Las Vegas to Alamo to Tonopah-Pahrump

Go full X-Files with Travel Nevada’s new tongue-in-cheek itinerary for intergalactic visitors. All life-forms are welcome to make the 487-mile (or 8.284e-11 light-year) trip, which includes driving Lincoln County’s Extraterrestrial Highway north of Area 51 (the off-limits military base at the center of many UFO conspiracies) and hiking the Mars-like landscape at Valley of Fire State Park in Overton.

Photograph by Bill Hatcher, National Geographic Creative