Nevada State Route 208
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State Route 208 (SR 208) is a 37.893-mile (60.983 km) state highway in Douglas and Lyon counties in Nevada, United States. It connects U.S. Route 395 (US 395) north of Topaz Lake to U.S. Route 95 Alternate in Yerington. The road serves as the primary transportation corridor of Smith Valley and is Main street in Yerington. The route was originally a portion of State Route 3.
Route description
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The character of the highway gradually changes descending from the foothills of the
The highway angles away from the Sierra into extreme northern Antelope Valley and through the unincorporated town of Topaz Ranch Estates before climbing several hundred feet over Jack Wright Summit (elevation 5842 MSL). It then makes a steep descent through a canyon created by the West Walker River, flattening out into Smith Valley at the town of Wellington. Once reaching the valley, the road more or less follows the route of the river from this point on. The highway departs Smith Valley via the river, using Wilson Canyon to connect with Mason Valley,[2] another agricultural valley in the otherwise arid deserts of Nevada.
Inside Mason Valley the road forks, with route 208 serving the east side of the valley and route
History
This is one of the oldest highways in Nevada. The route was first part of the lesser used
During the late 1970s and early 1980s the state of Nevada renumbered most state routes. The 1978 edition of the Nevada Highways map was the first to use both the 3 and 208 designations,[5] with the 1982 edition the first to use only the 208 designation.[6]
Major intersections
- Note: Milepostsin Nevada reset at county lines; the start and end mileposts for each county are given in the county column.
| County | Location | mi[7] | km | Destinations | Notes |
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| Douglas 0.00–8.78 | Holbrook Junction | 0.00 | 0.00 |  US 395 – Gardnerville, Topaz Lake | |
| Lyon 0.00–29.10 | | 1 | 1.6 |  SR 823 (Colony District Road) | |
| Wellington | 2 | 3.2 |    SR 829 to SR 338 – Bridgeport | ||
| Smith | SR 338 – Bridgeport | ||||
  SR 825 (Gage Road) | |||||
| |   SR 339 north – Mason, Yerington | ||||
| |  SR 827 – Mason | ||||
| Yerington |   SR 340 west (Bridge Street) | ||||
| 29.10 | 46.83 |   US 95 Alt. – Silver Springs, Hawthorne | |||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
See also
U.S. Roads portal
- List of state highways in Nevada
References
- ^ Planning Division (January 2018). "State Maintained Highways of Nevada: Descriptions and Maps". Nevada Department of Transportation. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
- ^ ISBN 0-929591-81-X.
- ^ State of Nevada Department of Highways (1919). Road Map of the State of Nevada (Map). State of Nevada Department of Highways. Retrieved February 19, 2018 – via Mary B. Ansari Map Library, University of Nevada, Reno.
- ^ State of Nevada Department of Highways (1929). Highway Map State of Nevada (Map). State of Nevada Department of Highways. Retrieved February 19, 2018 – via Mary B. Ansari Map Library, University of Nevada, Reno.
- ^ Nevada State Highway Department (1978). Official Highway Map of Nevada (Map) (1978-79 ed.). Carson City: Nevada State Highway Department. § D1. Retrieved February 19, 2018 – via Mary B. Ansari Map Library, University of Nevada, Reno.
- ^ Nevada Department of Transportation (1982). Official Highway Map of Nevada (Map). Carson City: Nevada Department of Transportation. § D1. Retrieved February 19, 2018 – via Mary B. Ansari Map Library, University of Nevada, Reno.
- ^ Location Division (2017). NDOT Maintenance Districts and Mileposts (Map). Nevada Department of Transportation. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
External links
Media related to Nevada State Route 208 at Wikimedia Commons