After completing Valley of Fire Highway I found myself at Northshore Road near the southern terminus of Nevada State Route 169 in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The junction with Old St. Thomas Road was located nearby which was part of NV 12. I wasn't certain about the road conditions on Old St. Thomas Road but figured that I would try it one way or another. All of current NV 169 once part of NV 12 and presently ends at the boundary of Lake Mead National Recreation Area just north of Valley of Fire Highway. That said NV 12 originally continued further south east to the ghost town St. Thomas and the Arizona State Line. NV 12 first appears on the 1929 Nevada State Highway Map. 1929 Nevada State Highway Map St. Thomas was an extremely rural community located in far flung Clark County near the confluence of the Muddy River and Virgin River. St. Thomas was settled by Mormon pioneers in 1865 in what was Mohave County of the Arizona Territory....
Because every road has a story.