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Nevada State Route 117 is 6.91-mile highway located in the Fallon area of Churchill County.  Nevada State Route 117 originates at US Route 95 near downtown Fallon where it follows Sheckler Road and Sheckler Cutoff Road to US Route 50.  Functionally Nevada State Route 117 acts as a bypass of downtown Fallon for traffic on US Routes 50 and 95.  What became Nevada State Route 117 was commissioned as Nevada State Route 61 in 1940.  Originally Nevada State Route 61 connected Fallon to the ghost town site of Saint Clair.  Saint Clair was a town which developed during the 1870s near a bridge at the Old Carson River.  Even after being renumbered to Nevada State Route 117 in 1976 the highway continued to serve Saint Clair.  The modern bypass alignment of Nevada State Route 117 was developed in the early 1990s.  Part 1; the history of Nevada State Route 117 The predecessor designation to Nevada State Route 117 was Nevada State Route 61.  Nevada State R...

Nevada State Route 116 is a rural 10.48-mile highway located in Churchill County east of Fallon.  Nevada State Route 116 as presently configured begins at US Route 50 and follows Stillwater Road to the former Churchill County seat of Stillwater. Stillwater was established as a stage station on the California Trail in 1862.  Stillwater served as the Churchill County seat between 1868-1903 prior to it transferring to Fallon.  Stillwater Road originally began at Harrigan Road (then US Route 50) in Fallon and was brought into the State Highway System in 1940 as Nevada State Route 42.  Much of Nevada State Route 42 and Stillwater Road were consumed in 1959 when US Route 50 was realigned around Naval Air Station Fallon.  In 1976 Nevada State Route 42 was renumbered as Nevada State Route 116.  The blog cover is a view along Nevada State Route 42 which was then known as the Fallon-Stillwater Road (now just Stillwater Road). This photo was featured in the 1947-1948 ...

Shake Ridge Road is an approximately 20.5-mile rural highway located in the Sierra Nevada range of Amador County.  Shake Ridge Road begins at California State Route 88 near Antelope Creek and extends westward via the Shake Ridge formation to Gopher Flat Road at the Sutter Creek city limit.  The segment of Shake Ridge Road east of Fiddletown Road was part of several spur roads which connected the mining towns of Amador County with Carson Pass.   By the 1880s the Shake Ridge Road corridor was extended west of Fiddletown Road to Amador City via Amador Creek.  Shake Ridge Road would be realigned in the late 1930s to Sutter Creek via Gopher Flat.  The Shake Ridge formation was once thought to have a volcanic origin during the early days of Amador County.  Part 1; the history of Shake Ridge Road Modern Shake Ridge Road connects the city of Sutter Creek eastward to California State Route 88 (Carson Pass Highway) via Shake Ridge.  Shake Ridge was once tho...