Nevada State Route 375
The Nevada State Route 375, better known as the Extraterrestrial Highway ( official name since 1996 ), Highway 375 or shortly ET Highway, is a state road in the counties of Lincoln and Nye in southern Nevada in the southwestern United States. It runs between Warm Springs, where it turns and Crystal Springs, where they 318 einbiegt on a short trip to the Nevada State Route in the U.S. Highway 93, U.S. Highway 6, and is 158 km ( 98.4 miles ) long. Sole and also famous spot along the road is Rachel, where many of the few travelers passing through Little A'Le'Inn, a decorated with UFO memorabilia bar, a brief stop.
The proximity to Area 51
The road became world famous because she runs along the Nellis Range and main tributaries is the long kept secret, but the popular name after also world famous military base Area 51. Coming from the south road just after the Hancock Summit a dirt road to the west through the Tikaboo Valley on what is often referred to as the Black Mailbox Road, because at the junction is the only clue for miles around the black letterbox of the Farmers Steve Medlin stood, which operates a farm in Tikaboo Valley. The actual base is located 20 miles away secluded behind a range of hills on the horizon.
End of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s the Tikaboo Valley was the target of UFO enthusiasts and the curious, which drove every Wednesday night in the desert to watch test flights over the Groom Lake base for a short time. Now and then she got to see the sky, which often were performing seemingly impossible maneuvers in the early morning light strange games with wild dancing points of light. When finally each busloads full of people made their way rather than less initiate, the test flights ended abruptly. But the legend of the UFOs in Area 51 was further nurtured and attracted more and more visitors from all over the world, eventually on April 18, 1996, helped that, in time for the imminent launch of film Independence Day, the Nevada State Route 375 at the instigation the then Governor Bob Miller was renamed Extraterrestrial Highway and signposted accordingly. The fact that the top speed was re- stated at warp 7, contributed to the general hype about the road and the base. However, officially applies to the main road for the usual speed limit of 70 mph Nevada