"Strange. I wonder why there aren't any people out?" *1000 degrees outside* "No idea."

That place is where courage the cowardly dog used to live.

I dont get why it so scary, im from Australia. Our whole country is basically like this....

"The Hills Have Eyes" is all I am thinking about watching this!!!!!!

Here's a thought. The people may all be inside, watching you thru the drawn curtains, plotting how to carve you into steaks and turn your fancy city car into a dune buggy.

I remember that day. Just cause u didn't see us doesn't mean we weren't watching u

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Imagine a workday for that postal employers

car, CAR! THERE'S A CAR COMING, QUICK EVERYBODY HIDE!

This is the type of place where you can disappear for good... D: all of those old cars could have been people that got lost and drove through the town O_O

A real open world adventure right here. A new area has been unlocked on the map. This is so awesome!

Imagine your vehicle stalls in the middle of the night....that's scary.

i would be scared shitless...what if you ran out of gas?!

You may not have noticed it, but they were watching you.

I'm from England, and in Early 1980s, visiting relatives in CA, my uncle took us on a 3 thousand mile trip going through Death Valley. It was unbearable in car. We did pass a few signs that showed signs of life were there. My uncle fried an egg on bonnet of car 😁 for us. It was scary coz the car did stop and overheat for a while. My parents panicked! My uncle just laughed and we got going. Never forgotten that trip to this day.

Maybe its too hot . Maybe they are sleeping. Then later on in the day the townspeople come out when its cooler outside.

You know those people have some good UFO and strange sightings stories

The loneliest places I have ever been are some cities where sometimes you can't find a single person--out of the thousands you walk by--who will talk with you.

DUDE thanks for using km/h Respect. Not many people especially Americans do that

I live there, it surely looks abandoned but seriously no one wants to go out 'cause the sun's burning.

Imagine how surprised the locals were to see a car 😁

I wouldn't call it a deserted ghost town, its just a small town in the middle if the desert and everyone is inside cuz it's so damn hot out lol

Am I the only one that this town reminds of the movie cars from Disney you know lightening mqween

This looks like beginning of Hills Have Eyes.

That city gives off the 'Hills have Eyes' kinda vibe. Watch the movie. You'll understand.

Im a rookie truck driver and i recently took this route. My heart droped when i seen the pavement ends sign. With no way to turn around all I could do is go forward. Luckily all went well and i made it back onto the 95. Never Again i say.

I don't think I saw a vehicle more recent than the early 80's. The place really looks apocalyptic.

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I will shed a little light on this town. At the end of the highway, there is a historical marker. If you read it, the town of Silver peak Nevada is explained. It was a small mining town in the early 1900's. Starting as a gold boom town, but after a few years, it went dormant. No more gold, so most of the town left. People that stayed a few years later, suffered a horrible fire, burning up most of the town. Years later, the town was revived due to the rich minerals of this particular area! It is now, one of the largest producers of lithium in the United States! Yes, they have a tiny post office, and old homes, and homesteads. Up the mountain is also a large, active gold mine, which most of the workers, use Silver peak to park, and camp their trailers to work during the week, then take off home on their weeks off. Now, in recent months, both roads thru Silver Peak are now paved! Cheers!

I saw nothing creepy here. I live in a desert too and when it's mid day it's too hot outside that it looks like a ghost town.

I work for a Ford service center here in Long Island, NY and as soon as I saw you doing this in a Flex I prayed for you man. Ballsy

Always use that turn signal for safety! Those tumbleweeds are horrific drivers. 😂🤣

People in this comment section watch too many movies and have started to believe they are real. The best people across the US live in these shabby small towns. I rode a bicycle across the US and always stopped in small towns like this (though much smaller) to spend the night. There are so many towns in the north-west and mid-west that have populations of less than 100. Many towns have less than 50. I spent the night in one town called Scenic in South Dakota that was literally a population of less than 10. It was one family and the lady who owned the town had it up for sale and asked if I knew anyone who wanted to buy a town lol. I also stayed the night in another town called Boyes, in Montana and only like 5 people lived there. A guy there let me spend the night for 2 nights because of a storm moving in. He had a little building in his back yard that was finished with carpet, a bunk bed, nightstand, and power. Anyway, I could go on and on about all the amazing small towns I stayed in and the awesome, generous, kind, and hospitable people I met.

When I drove out to Colorado, when you first enter the state from the eastern Nebraska side it is VERY desolate, maybe more than this. There are roads that go off to the left and right of the main highway like this for miles into the distance, seemingly to nowhere. I got pretty panicked about gas when I realized that even if you turned off you could have another hour before you found a town.

I’ve made the drive between Vegas and Reno many times. Ive been curious about this road. Thanks for the video...curiosity cured.

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You better hope it's not a "Nuke-town" where the military tests new bombs and stuff lol!

you drove a Ford into the middle of nowhere? you have balls

Silverpeak looks like a town that was abandoned in the 60s and never saw another person again... creepy.

There are a lot of great looking old towns in Nevada. It’s so quiet out there in the desert that your ears starting ringing.❤️❤️❤️

We've been traveling the desert for over 25 years now. Love every bit of it! Been on tiny "goat trail" roads. Blacktop, dirt, gravel roads. Even in the most remote places...we've always passed at least one other vehicle on the road. You know...seen SOME kinda sign of life. Here's this town Silverpeak in our video here....supposedly it has 107 inhabitants. The Lithium plant is supposed to be open and running....and yet in well over an hour of driving...including through the town itself....past the Lithium plant....never saw another moving vehicle or a person. Here's the strangest part....we've been back through that same route twice more since we shot this video in 2009. Once in October of 2011....and again in Jan of 2013. Exact same result! Never saw another person or moving vehicle....nothing open including that post office! This is one fascinating & odd little place! ~KK

The Hills Have Eyes! thems is gonna get you!👀

My Grandparents lived in Silver Peak in the 70s. We would spend spring break there for years. Coming from Huntington Beach Ca. was quite the cultural shock... RIP Grandpa!

If horror movies has thought one things it's to avoid back roads in the desert.

The strangest place I've been was in Tennessee. There were cobwebs on the pumps of the only gas station in town. We were Really hungry and Really tired, so we stopped at a cafe that looked open, with some cars around. The cafe was packed with people, maybe a hundred or more, and the only place we could see to sit was through the tables up at a little cafe bar. It was noisy when we stepped in but went dead silent and stayed that way as we walked the long walk to the bar, sat down, waited until our spidey senses could take it no more, and got up quietly and walked that long walk back out. We could hear the talk resume as we closed the door. We were just nineteen and fresh-faced kind of kids, not imposing or anything, on a ~7 thousand mile adventure. About five miles down the road was a teeny town (like comparing Silver Peak to Alkali) but they had gas, offered us some of their home-cooked food since they didn't have a cafe, and talked our ears off. It was a relief after the chill we'd felt. We never asked about that other town; we just didn't want to know, I guess.

Make no mistake.....all the towns people saw you!!

Got it This is where "hills have eyes" shooted😂👻

Man what a beautiful silent town I wanna live there peaceful and quiet!.. ✌

Be pretty funny if a cop car pulled out because they ran a stop sign.

I live in Nevada and pretty much everything here is scary.

They saw you coming.. Standing behind locked doors with shotguns loaded, due to you outlaws in town.😁

A couple of factors towards the lack of people from experience living in a rural desert community:1. Except for mining or chloride operations, there is no employment in these settlements.2. Many of these settlements are mostly abandoned; they are affected by the same fluctuating housing market as any other city or town, meaning when property values drop, people move away.3. Remember that this is the Southwestern US and is comprised of dry hot desert, so nothing rusts, decays or molds significantly and is well preserved.4. The few people who do live in these settlements when there is little to no employment are retirees who want somewhere quiet and cheap to live, so you probably won't see anyone outside.

If you had a medical emergency on your own and fall unconscious there your pretty much fucked

not a good place to break down or anything

"They're here...and they're not here" - Cristopher Lee

At 2:13 and at 2:16 Looks like animals sitting on the ground. WTF!??

Why do I keep thinking I'm going to see a cartoon roadrunner and coyote in this video,,,LOL

had to chuckle... 18 seconds into video, no one in sight and you use your turn signal!!!

I can see it coming a guy walks up to the car and tells this guy you sure got pretty mouth. lol

Don't get out of the car

Its all fun and games until your car brakes down! :)

OMG! I just happened to stumble upon this video but instantly I knew where you were at. Back in 1994 I first traveled this road when visiting my dad in a little unknown town in Nevada named Silverpeak. I am so blown away seeing this. My dad died in 2006 so this was very nostalgic for me. We did lots of exploring around that country side. Doesn't seem like it but there's much to see, including petroglyphs in a valley not too far away. Interestingly Silverpeak, in the beginning, was the capital of Nevada. It's where silver was first discovered, hence the name. There's a historical marker that states the large size of the town and also a ghost town of sorts on a hillside but most of it is gone leaving only holes in the ground where basements used to be. But you can clearly see how the streets ran just from those ground holes. FYI those "ponds" you saw driving in are the results of lithium mining. My dad ran heavy equipment for this company removing the salt overburden and other heavy equipment work. A few years later another company came into town to reopen an old mine there. The town grew a little with two large company's to sustain families but in this video it looks like this may have changed. Since this is right after the big recession it makes sense that it's more of a ghost town than ever. Never a town town but it was not in this bad of shape when I was last there. I can't get over seeing this video. Being able to reminisce about my dad has been wonderful! I miss him everyday. Thank you so much!

DK, I'm sure you've realized by now that there's actually quite a LOT of very weird, dumpy, almost abandoned tiny towns in the MOFN in America. Especially in the deserts of the West. I used to be quite shocked by these, but as a person who regularly "gets lost" on purpose in areas of the Mojave(near Barstow, Ludlow, Bagdad, Red Mountain, etc). I'm starting to get more used to finding either abandoned or extremely run-down towns. A note of CAUTION: A high percentage of people who live in these tiny towns are there for good reasons. Such as, they don't want to be around others, or they can't abide strangers. Many of these people are extremely anti-social. I have seen several get verbally aggressive simply because I had stopped my car nearby to get a better look, or take a pic. You need to be prepared to do a "Sorry, got to go, thanks.", and then drive away quick. And, always make sure you have someone who knows where you are. Me, I don't even stop in remote areas without first texting my GPS coordinates to people back home. You want people to know where to start looking, if you vanish.

There seems to be an over abundance of vehicles for a small town period. The fact there is no one to drive them, makes it all the more bizarre!!

Did some research, but dont quote me on this: Silverpeak is a mining town, and all of the inhabitants are over 30, and they all work at the mine. Late in the afternoon is when you will see everyone leaving the mine to head home or to open local businesses, such as a the bar. The post office is only open on day a week, and is used only to store mail until delivery day.

basically you are driving over a huge underground base, my friend!

👍😍Wow! Thanks for sharing this!! That’s where I wanna be...in the middle of no where with no body!!! It’s definitely on my list now!! BTW you mentioned it was Sunday sooo I figure: 1)half of the people were at church🙏 2) the other half were sleeping off the Saturday night alcohol induced shenanigans 😂

As David Jacobus already mentioned in a previous comment. Silver Peak is a place where they mine Lithium (you know, the stuff that's in the rechargeable batteries of your phone, and almost everything else including electric automobiles). It is pretty much the ONLY lithium mining location in the entire United States, so it is actually a pretty important place. The lithium is in solution with water under the dry desert lake bed, so they drill wells, pump the water up, and extract the lithium by evaporating the water out . There's so much more to Nevada than Las Vegas and Reno! Next time, try driving out through Gabbs lol.

Why does this video remind me of the movie The Hills Have Eyes? Watch out!

This area should be a zombie movie

Idk man, I feel like some sort of paranormal maybe even inhuman being would live there

Cool video....seems like ghost towns.... something out of twilight zone..

I love towns where you have to pass over a cattle guard to enter.

Gotta say, y'all brave driving out there with no gas/service stations in view!

Thanks for the video! I hike in the desert quite frequently. I cannot believe you took that road in a Ford Flex! Remember to always take at least a gallon per person per day, gun, and a tracking device!

That paved portion of the road is in MUCH better condition today, and Silvertweak, as my buddy refers to it, is the site of a huge Lithium mining operation. That's what the evaporation ponds are for. The very cool ghost town of Nivloc (Colvin, spelled backwards) is only 10 miles or so up the valley near Silverpeak. Lots to see there. Also the ghost town of Goldpoint is on a side road between Goldfield and Silverpeak. You can see it from the road you were on. Folks seem to miss a lot when anxious and hurried. ✌🐸

Interesting Video. I enjoyed watching but that area looks spooky. I love road trips but O goodness, that would have freaked me out. Back roads do have some hidden gems

Maybe all the people were in church!

Did I somehow stumble upon the actual beginning footage of the real "The hills have eyes" movie?

Thank you for sharing your creepy traveling experience journey on this abandoned town in the middle of the desert. I had a goosebumps feeling all over me watching your documented video. And that was really awesome !!!

Definitely not abandoned. Too clean. And the vehicles too intact. Salvages would strip this place if OT was abandoned. Gonna love visiting there this winter.

That was extremely unnerving. The thought that there could well have been people watching you from inside those buildings, perhaps phoning others further down the road to give them a heads up. Commenters here are right when they compare it to something out of a 'backwards town horror movie'.

Interesting. Would love to walk and investigate around there

Reminds me of a "Twilight Zone" episode when only a few inhabitants, and you have to wonder why anyone lives there. Turns out the place has a secret they refuse to tell the world.

That's a cool video. I have been all over Nevada and have not been on that stretch of road. Obviously someone occupies Silver Peak. It reminds me of the town of Gold Point down in the more southern part of the state. Total isolation on a desert road. For a city kid, it feels a little surreal, and a bit spooky.

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This is AWESOME, I have driven 95 several times through Tonopah I am going to do this rout next time. Thank you!

House of wax neighborhood lol

Got my popcorn just waiting for leatherface to come out with his chainsaw. 🍿

I know people in Silverpeak including the manager of the lithium plant which also mines gold as a by product. Great hard working people. Up at the top of those mountains behind it is another gold mine called Mineral Ridge. Great hunting and beautiful views up there. Too bad you didn't go that way back to the roads. It would have led you down the other side to Fish Lake. Neat little farming town with a great hot spring. From there you can go on to Tonopah or Montgomery Pass and then in to Bishop, CA. or even further to Mammoth.

Little town of Aliens who want to stay inside in their AC homes instead of being outside in the desert sun

I've heard there's a lot of radiation from all the underground nuke tests they did in north Nevada, really awesome vid bro!!

A great place to meditate. A bad place to have car trouble.

Maybe there were no people because it was 200 d*mn degrees outside.

This looks alot like the road to my mom's village, it's so abandoned that literally you can see many weird things. The things usually have there arms backwards and super long nails also there spine is either forward or broke and can be seen in the back. My mom told me that she and her friends did go once out of curiosity. They spotted a village with people who had markings on them. Till this day I still have no idea if she was lying or telling the truth but the 'things' are hella real cuz I saw them.

Somebody thought opening a restaurant there was a good idea. What an optimist!

I know it's been 7 years since your video but I couldn't resist looking up the post office. You were driving on Main Street, as the post office address is 350 Main St, Silverpeak, NV 89047. It's still an active location according to the official USPS website. Great video!

This is a really interesting video. I live in the UK and would do anything to visit the area around Area 51. Thanks for the upload!

Am I the only one who would wanna break in all those houses and cars and just look around (I know I wouldn’t, I would be murdered by anyone hiding or there would be booby traps 💀)

I assume when the new highway opened, people chose faster route and left that old road which is what that town is on. Town's business started to die and so people move out.