Exploring Nevada’s Edwards Creek Valley
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 12.04.06 | 9:20 AM ET
Boston Globe travel writer Tom Haines and photographer Essdras M. Suarez have teamed up for some ambitious projects—their China series published several months ago comes to mind. In their latest, the two visited remote Edwards Creek Valley in Nevada during and after a round-up of wild mustang horses. Haines’s evocative story about the valley appeared Sunday. He and Suarez also put together a few compelling narrated slide shows with stunning photos.
Writes Haines near the top of his story:
Edwards Creek Valley, as the 30-mile-long stretch of range is known, opens between the Desatoya and Clan Alpine mountains near the geographic center of Nevada, some 250 miles north of Las Vegas. US Highway 50, branded by tourism promoters as “The Loneliest Road in America,” traverses the valley east to west, leading travelers across some of the least-populated land in the nation. Day and night, sight runs toward unbounded edges; sound fades quickly to nothing.
Considered from over the ridges and far away, from somewhere like the East Coast, the valley can seem an icon, or cliche, of the American West: a lonely and wild place. But come here and settle in, even for a few days: Lonely is relative; and what, exactly, is wild anymore?
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
