Welcome to Caliente

Heading north from Las Vegas, past Alamo and Ash Springs, US Hwy 93 leads to a junction, where you turn east through some desolate countryside to Caliente, a former railroad town with a Mission-style 1923 railway depot that makes for a cool photo op.

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The main reason you'll be passing through is en route to the spectacular Cathedral Gorge State Park, 15 miles to the north. Visits here can be tied in with journeys along SR-375, 'The Extraterrestrial Highway,' which begins at Crystal Springs, what is now little more than a ghost town, some 44 miles west of Caliente.

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