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Desert art and sleepy ghost towns of the most unimaginable kind add a whole sense of drama and beauty along the Free Range Highway in Nevada. If the arts is your thing, strap on your seatbelt in your Las Vegas motorhome rental and prepare to let your imagination run wild.
The best way to begin the 475-mile journey along the Free-Range Art Highway in your Las Vegas motorhome rental is from Las Vegas to Tonopah or Reno. To get the artsy vibe juices flowing, start off with the Las Vegas Arts District on the way out.
On the road, you’ll soon see plenty of sleepy ghost towns and some of the wildest works of art you have ever seen against the vast and dry Nevada desert, all from the comfort of your own vehicle.
If you choose to head out a little west of Nevada to start your trip, one of the colourful and offbeat art installations in the region is called Seven Magic Mountains, an Instagram-er's delight! This is the work of renowned Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone.
Make your way through the bright lights of Las Vegas and Route 95 soon comes alive as you discover there's even more magic in the air and some more extraordinary art.
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Other works of art you can also view at the museum is a 24-foot miner and his penguin companion, a towering cinderblock lady and so much more. The eye-catching Red Barn is the site of an arts festival called Albert’s Tarantella, which is held in October every year.
At the Goldfield Art Car Park is the Art Cars of Rocket Bob, which was designed by artist Robert Van Kauren, and you’ll soon see what makes this display so special and unique. Hours and hours of work, engineering and design has gone into making this work of art what it is today.
Located in the city of Yerington, the Yerington Theater for The Arts located inside the Jeanne Dini Cultural Centre is regarded as one of Nevada’s finest art organisations. Don’t worry about making a booking, just pop in as the Theater always has plenty of events and galleries open so that road trippers and families can enjoy the arts.
As you reach the end of your road trip at either Tonopah or Reno, there are still plenty of works of art for you to enjoy because we’ve saved the best until last.
On the streets of Reno there are plenty of commissioned murals and dozens of ‘post-Playa’ sculptures to celebrations that get the own town involved, like Sculpture Fest, Off Beat Music Fest and Artown. In Tonopah, don’t forget to keep your eye out for several murals, including the ‘Queen of the Silver Camps’.
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