Art on the roads of Navada

Nevada Museum of Art, Seven Magic Mountains

Nevada is highlighting road trips through the state that explores in the many public art exhibits dotted across the desert. 

The state’s Free-range Art Highway takes travellers from Las Vegas to Reno and the ‘Cowboy Corridor’ from Reno to West Wendover. Nevada is bordered by Oregon, Idaho, California, Arizona, and Utah. 

The artwork on display ranged from sculptures by known artists to impromptu pieces including : 

Seven Magic Mountains 

Created by Swiss artist Ugo Rondine in collaboration with Nevada Museum of Art, Seven Magic Mountains sit just off Interstate 15 and are built from rocks sourced from the surrounding desert that have been painted in a rainbow of vivid colours. 

International Car Forest of The Last Church 

International Car Forest of the Last Church

Just off Highway 95 in Goldfield, the International Car Forest of the Last Church is a collection of abandoned cars buried nose down, which was first created by Goldfield resident Mark Rippie. 

Mark wanted to break the Guinness World Record for the world’s biggest car forest. Joined by artists Chad Sort and Zak Sargent, the three buried the noses of more than 40 vehicles to create the forest of cars.

Goldwell Open Air Museum 

This sculpture park towards Death Valley, covers almost eight acres and has seven huge structures created by a group of Belgian artists, who wanted to pursue their artistic visions free from convention. 

Thunder Mountain Monument 

Thunder Mountain Monument

Just by Nevada’s I-80, Thunder Mountain Monument is a handmade open-air gallery and sculpture garden, created over many decades by the late Frank Van Zant (Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder), using artefacts and items he found in the Nevada desert as a way to honour American Indian heritage and as a monument to the ‘Great Spirit’. 

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