CLUI's sold out tour
of the Nellis Range departs from the perimiter of Area
51.
CLUI photo
Nevada has the most publically accessible
land in this country, as over 80% of it is managed by the
Bureau of Land Management. Travellers can go just about anywhere
in Nevada, just close the cattlegate behind you. The big exception
is the Nellis Range, the inaccessible void. The perimeter
region, where the open landscape meets this landlocked island
of the unknown, is an interesting, liminal space, where these
opposite worlds are juxtaposed, creating an Eisensteinian
"collision" dialectic, manifested physically on
the landscape.
The Center for
Land Use Interpretation exhibit The Nellis Range Complex: Landscape
of Conjecture included a bus tour of the Nellis Range area as
part of the exhibit. The sold-out tour brought over 50 people
out to southern Nevada, for a two day loop around the Range.
As expected, permission was not received to enter into the Range
at any point, making this a sort of virtual tour - a tour of
an unvisitable place. The bus was met by local briefers at various
points, visited the range perimeter areas wherever possible,
and stopped at many unusual sites along the way, setting the
context for the Range, and describing it from without.
Experience a virtual tour on our
Nellis clickable map.
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