Winnemucca er en afsides perle i Great Basin med bakkede sandområder og en bjergkæde, der bryder med den ellers store åbne udsigt. Winnemucca er opkaldt efter en lokal indianerhøvding og har en rig historie, som inkluderer indianerstammerne Paiute og Shoshone, nybyggere, baskisk kultur og en travl Chinatown.
Tag på en historisk gåtur, og besøg Humboldt County Museum for at lære mere om Winnemuccas pionerfortid. Smag på fantastiske baskiske retter, som efter traditionen nydes med et glas køligt Picon Punch, på en af Winnemuccas familieejede og udsøgte restauranter.
Winnemucca og dens omgivelser indbyder til en køretur. Luften fyldes med motorcyklernes brøl i Memorial Day-weekenden, hvor motorcykelløbet Run-A-Mucca afholdes. Skriv din bil op til det årlige Fifties Fever dragrace, der afholdes midt på sommeren, hep på de andre deltagere eller deltag i gadedansen eller et såkaldt pokerløb. Udforsk ørkenens højland på en adrenalinpumpende mountainbiketur. Følg en af baglandets ruter, og udforsk de støvede stier, som Butch Cassidys berygtede “Wild Bunch” plejede at følge.
Sommeren får virkelig denne ørkenby til at summe, men der er også masser af seværdigheder og aktiviteter om vinteren i det indendørs Winnemucca Events Complex og i de storslåede naturområder. Dagens uendelige blå himmel og solskin bliver efterfulgt af en pludselig ørkenkulde, så sørg for at være godt forberedt med varmt tøj til om aftenen.
Denne ørkenoase ligger i midten af det nordlige Nevada ved et stort motorvejskryds. Winnemuccas belejlige beliggenhed ved disse to store motorveje gør det nemt at komme til byen i bil eller via bus. Begynd rejsen til Stillehavet i den naturskønne by Winnemucca og videre på motorvejen Sea Highway. Du kan også komme til Winnemucca via den effektive Amtrak service eller ved at flyve til Winnemucca Kommunale Lufthavn, som ligger kun 8 kilometer sydvest for Downtown Winnemucca.
Winnemucca byder på en fantastisk ørkennatur, livlige kasinoer, motorløb, rodeoer og “big country”-hjerter.
![The?Thunder Mountain Monument?is a series ofoutsider art?sculptures and architectural forms which were assembled by Frank Van Zant starting in 1969 upon his arrival in?Imlay, Nevada; it is located on a shoulder of?I-80. A WWII veteran from Oklahoma, Frank Van Zant had served with the?7th Armoured Division,[1]?fighting in several campaigns, and been badly burned in a tank battle outside ofLeipzig, Germany.[2]?A self-identified?Creek Indian,[3]he took the?Native American?name Rolling Mountain Thunder after experiencing an?epiphany, and took on the twin but related tasks of both building shelters from the presumed coming apocalypse, and making a?de facto?spiritual haven for spiritual seekers of the?hippie?era. (There is no Thunder Mountain in the vicinity.)The site contains three stone and cement buildings and over 200 cement sculptures variously depicting Native Americans and their protective spirits, massacres, and purported injustices. Thunder Mountain Monument (or Park) is replete with found objects (such as, but not limited to, car hoods, dolls' heads, typewriters, and gas pumps), many of which are incorporated into the buildings themselves; one framework forms a large handle so the Great Spirit could take the building away after Thunder's death.He was long subjected to harassment by the local townspeople, and his site was partially destroyed by arson in 1983, the same year he was named Nevada's Artist of the Year; a heavy cigarette smoker, Rolling Mountain Thunder committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in 1989. His uniquely wrought environment was neglected and subject to vandalism until it was declared a Nevada State Historic Site in the 1990s; it is now under the care of his grown children under the aegis of a State of Nevada Historic Site Restoration Project, and is partially open to the public for self-guided tours.[4]Frank Van Zant has been the subject of two short documentaries.[5] Wikipedia](https://images.trvl-media.com/place/6053763/47a95973-a5b1-4b92-92ff-98f511d0bbd0.jpg?impolicy=fcrop&w=512&h=288&q=medium)
