page_title: Nevada State Route 341
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Nevada State Route 341 / History
caption_attribution_description: English: View of Reno and surroundings from the Geiger Lookout Wayside Park on Nevada State Route 341.
context_page_description: State Route 341 is a state highway in western Nevada connecting US 50 near Dayton to Reno via Virginia City. Commonly known as the Virginia City Highway, or Geiger Grade north of Virginia City, the route has origins dating back to the 1860s.
context_section_description: SR 341 began as a toll facility constructed by Davison M. Geiger and John H. Tilton in 1862. Despite the dangers associated with traveling the route, Geiger Grade was a well-traveled route that provided the most direct connection between the Comstock Lode and the Reno area.
  The road appears on highway maps dating back to at least 1919.  However, it wasn't until 1929 that the route first appeared as State Route 17 on official Nevada highway maps. The original road was replaced with the present-day paved highway alignment in 1936.
  The highway appears to have remained largely unchanged until the 1970s. In the Nevada state highway renumbering that began in 1976, the entirety of State Route 17 was reassigned to present-day SR 341; this change first appears on the 1978-79 version of the official state map.
caption: Panoramic view towards Reno, from a lookout point along the Geiger Grade portion of SR 341
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