Bell Vista Road and State Line Road

[Max Rockatansky]

The combined corridor of Bell Vista Road in Nye County, Nevada and State Line Road in Inyo County, California forms an approximately 27.5-mile rural Mojave Desert highway corridor.  The Bell Vista Road corridor begins in the community of Pahrump and extends west to the California state line near Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.  The State Line Road corridor continues west to California State Route 127 at Death Valley Junction.  Bell Vista Road and State Line Road have become a popular path of travel in modern times due to ease of access to Death Valley National Park. 

The original portions of Bell Vista Road west of Pahrump Valley was constructed as part of the Lila C Mine traction road in 1907.  The corridor of State Line Road was constructed after Death Valley Junction was plotted as the terminus of the Death Valley Railroad in 1914.  The remaining balance of modern Bell Vista Road east of Ash Meadows Road as constructed after the population boom in Pahrump during the second half the twentieth century. 

https://www.gribblenation.org/2025/07/bell-vista-road-and-state-line-road.html?m=1

[Scott5114]

"State Line Road"
[checks map]
[doesn't actually follow the state line]

Yeah, that's some Pahrump stuff all right.

[cl94]

Heh, I drove that within the past month. One of the rare significant paved rural roads in Nevada that isn't state- or federally-maintained.