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Places worth the detour in Nevada

Detourmap lists 86 places in Nevada, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Great Basin National Park. 76 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Archaeological57 Nature29
Places
86
Oldest
St. Thomas 1865
Little known
76 of 86
Share of United States
2%

Nevada 86

All 86, best known first.

Elsewhere in United States

California463 Alaska334 Washington258 Wyoming198 Oregon187 Utah179 Colorado154 Arizona144 New York137 Florida107 Texas106 North Carolina104

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Nevada?

Great Basin National Park, 20th century. United States National Park in White Pine County, Nevada, United States. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Nevada?

86: 57 archaeological & historic sites and 29 nature & landscapes. 76 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in Nevada?

St. Thomas, dated to 1865. 14 of the 86 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Nevada here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Nevada if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Nevada is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.