Its mines have produced vast amounts of silver, gold, and copper. Yet, it is one of the most visited of the fifty states, thanks to Reno and Las Vegas. Commonly known as the Silver State, Nevada is also nicknamed the Sagebrush State. It is the fourteen mountain ranges and the wide sagebrush-covered valleys in between them that the traveler along the American Discovery Trail will come to know and remember best. The trail in Nevada is composed of nine segments totalling 496 miles, largely on isolated, relatively unused dirt roads.
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