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Nevada State Route 161 is rural highway located in southern Clark County.  This highway begins at Interstate 15 in Jean and follows Goodsprings Road and Spring Street westward 7.277 miles to Esmeralda Street in Goodsprings.   Goodsprings Road was part of the Silver Lake Cutoff which was adopted as the then new alignment of the Arrowhead Trail in 1920.  When the Silver Lake Cutoff was commissioned, it saved approximately 90 miles of travel through the Mojave Desert between Las Vegas and Barstow.  Originally the Arrowhead Trail passed through Searchlight south of Las Vegas and entered California near Bannock.  The Silver Lake Cutoff followed Las Vegas Boulevard south to Jean and turned westward towards Goodsprings.  Within Goodsprings the Arrowhead Trail passed through the community via Spring Street, Esmerald Street, Reimann Road and Columbia Mill Road.  From Goodsprings the Silver Lake Cutoff crossed Columbia Pass via Sandy Valley Road and entered...