# 374 – Dinky the T-Rex – The part of Novac that is the most iconic is the enormous dinosaur, which reminds me of this place in Henderson called Shan-Gri-La Prehistoric Park, a museum and park at the home of Steve “Dinoman” Springer, a retired school teacher. I know that it is not related to Novac the city, but what the heck, I will include it here. There is also a Novak Street in the very, very northeastern corner of North Las Vegas. He does not mind as long as you stop by his house (the general store) and say hello, or if he is not there, legend says leaving some soda or other offering on the step that he can sell in his store or use himself will grant you safe passage through his lands. There is a canyon beyond and in order to traverse it, you have to walk on Rocky Novak’s land. But in Ballarat, far west of here, I found out that there is a person who lives there – the only person who lives there – named Rocky Novak. There are no permanent structures currently and only contains a few scattered items.Īlthough I know the way the name of Novac came from the “no vacancy” sign outside of the motel. It looks to be privately owned land that has been previously used for small scale festivals or meet ups, with future plans for a multitude of developments that never came to fruition. I really could not make sense of what this location actually is in real life. The road leads to the real world location Delphi Village, or Delphi amphitheater, east of the highway as opposed to west. It is located at Highway 95’s mile marker 31. The road that is between Nevada 164 / Searchlight and Nevada 165 / HELIOS One is … “unnamed road” … (thanks a lot, Nevada). I was going to redo it when I started writing this guide, but the version I drew in the car is kind of endearing (and started a theme throughout the rest of the guide). Please see below for my very professional rendition. So there seems to be a road missing in between. If you head south, the next named highway is Nevada 164, which intersects at Searchlight. # 129 – Novac – In the game, Novac can be found at the intersection of Highway 95 and Nevada 165, but this intersection in our world is north of HELIOS One. Or maybe the plans for the Searchlight wind farm project was the inspiration, it having not been tabled yet while the game was in development. Being the only wind farm in Nevada, perhaps it was the inspiration. I have not yet driven to the wind farm in real life, it is located a significant 300+ miles away, about five hours of driving from my house. She also told me that there was a proposal for a wind farm closer, just south of here, but she thought they had scrapped the plans for good a few years back (and she was right). It is called Spring Valley Wind Farm, in Ely, Nevada. She told me Nevada only has one wind farm, way north of here. # 127 – Southern Nevada Wind Farm – When I was in Searchlight, I asked the gas station attendant – the one not crazy person I met there – if the area had any wind turbines and she told me that surprisingly no, the area is pretty poor generator of wind. There are two other locations I have been to, farther west in California, that reminded me of the Gibson Strap Yard – one was an art installation and one was an abandoned gas station (I think). Of note there is an “Old Gibson Road” and a neighborhood called “Gibson Springs” in southeast Vegas. I can just imagine Old Lady Gibson sitting there, being helpful as usual with her pups standing around, really wide eyed and panting at me. # 126 / 397 – Gibson scrap yard / shack – Not wanting to tread old ground, but I really do think that the Nelson ghost town looks a lot like this place, with a cacophony of old, broken down and rusted car hulls, piles of tires, tools and scrap piled high in abandoned shacks. They look a lot like what we see in the game, with the exception of the bear missing a head and the U.S. # 382 – 385 – Jeannie May Crawford / McBride / No-Bark / Novac housesĪ lot of places around the general area have the Nevada “Battle Born” flag up along Highway 95 here, and just a few miles west, the California flag. # 377 / 380 / 379 – Dino Dee-lite Motel / motel room / front desk # 375 / 386 – Cliff Briscoe / Ranger Andy bungalows In my game, the location also included like half a dozen Jeannie May Crawfords. The area around where Novac and Gibson scrap yard would exist in our world is a long stretch of semi barren wasteland, peppered with massive transmission towers and those weird dust tornadoes on the west side of Highway 95.
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