In geocaching, the ExtraTerrestrial Highway is world famous. Cachers from all over the world take their vacations just to go on it. It is a power trail of several hundred miles with 2300 caches on it. They are every 550' apart. The north side of the highway is the power trail that cachers flock to. The south side borders AREA 51 in Nevada. Area 51 is a top secret site that government still doesn't admit that it exists. This is where they supposedly found a spaceship with an Alien inside. In 1996, Nevada officially designated highway 375 as the ExtraTerrestrial Highway. There have many sightings of UFO's on this road. We were here for 3 days and I NEVER saw anything.
I had heard about the ET Highway for years. Since we are going home a different way than usual, I realized we would be close to it, so had to go on it. We spent 2 days along the Highway. First day, we found 105, 2nd day, 113. That day breaks my record of 110. I have to admit, it was kind of boring. Getting in and out of the car 218 times plus walking 50-60' to the cache and back is very tiring. We could have done more each day, but my whole body was exhausted. The 3rd day, we just went up to a little town of Rachael (54 pop) that is a must see. It is the only town on the Highway to stop and stretch your legs and get a bite of food.
This is the Alien Research Center. Really just a gift shop to buy souvenirs and everything you need to go on the ET Highway and Area 51
Wall inside the Alien Research Center that all visitors sign. I also did, but had a hard time finding a spot. Finally had to sign over somebody's signature. The wall continues around the corner.
This is just a partial view of the power trail of the ET Highway. This is probably only a quarter length of the ET . All the little green dots are geocaches. I haven't logged my caches yet. When I do, all the green dots will turn into smiley faces. The caches I found start at the right and go most of the way up
There is geoart on the ET Highway That is when people put out geocaches in the shape of things. Below is an Alien Head and a Spaceship. In the map above, the geoart is in the upper left corner. Most of the geoart is usually a hike, the alien is about 10 miles, the spaceship 7 miles.
If we go back this way again, I will do the geoart only. The power trail itself is too boring and exhausting. The yellow smiley faces are caches that I have found. The town of Rachael is at the very right hand bottom of the picture. We did a few caches while having lunch
The ET Highway is open range so you have to be careful of cows roaming around. I took this picture from the car to show you how close they are to the road. Unfortunately, we saw a couple of dead cows alongside the road.
This is the Alien Mailbox cache. All the Aliens check their mail here!! Wonder how much they get or is it all junk mail like humans usually find in their mailboxes!
Denny is checking out the spaceship in front of the cafe
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