# Nevada Bound
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nevada-bound/835504
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 14, 2019, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nevada-bound/835504 "2019-06-14T11:52:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nevada-bound/835504/1 "2019-06-14T11:52:11Z")
So, mrAru and I are headed to Nevada the second week of July [5th through 12th] flying into Las Vegas and renting a car. We are planning on staying at Bally’s through Sunday morning, then heading up to Dyer, then back and home again.
We are looking at a property in Dyer, and possibly heading up to Fallon to look around.
Anybody have any interesting info about the area around Dyer and Fallon?
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nevada-bound/835504/2 "2019-06-14T12:19:02Z")
Whenever I drive thru Dyer, I always play Led Zeppelin’s _D’yer Mak’er_. There’s nothing there, tho, so the song lasts far longer than the town does.
Fallon is a viable small town (like: real small town, not marketing-term small town) tho.
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### Author:  [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nevada-bound/835504/3 "2019-06-14T13:08:16Z")
> [@aruvqan](#):
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> So, mrAru and I are headed to Nevada the second week of July [5th through 12th] flying into Las Vegas and renting a car. We are planning on staying at Bally’s through Sunday morning, then heading up to Dyer, then back and home again.
> We are looking at a property in Dyer, and possibly heading up to Fallon to look around.
> Anybody have any interesting info about the area around Dyer and Fallon?
They’re nowhere near each other. I’ve not been around Fallon, but my understanding is that it’s a military town, home to Fallon NAS and the home of Top Gun. I have driven through Dyer. Pretty, in a high desert, dry and desolate way. Very good seeing at night. Very quiet. [Deep Springs College](https://www.deepsprings.edu/) is near there, IIRC, and they make a bit of hay out of the ‘ultra-rural cattle ranch meets Salon of Athens’ experience.
(After looking at a map, it looks like I’d confused Oasis with Dyer. Still, Dyer is only about 35 miles away from DSC, which is ‘near’ in that part of the world. It’s 70-ish miles from either Tonopah or Bishop, not that either are big cities by any stretch.)
It’s a long way from anything, but a gorgeous part of the country.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nevada-bound/835504/4 "2019-06-14T19:32:12Z")
You’d be better off flying to Reno. Just sayin’. But I know you won’t.
Fallon is a nice little place. All the stuff you need while retaining small-town charm. Reno is close if you need ‘other’. Plenty of outdoor activity all around. Mountains, lakes, desert in every direction. Don’t know much about housing/property over there, but I would imagine your money goes pretty far.
Don’t know squat about Dyer. Sounds like that’s about all I need to know.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nevada-bound/835504/5 "2019-06-14T19:39:48Z")
Oh, and its always windy in Fallon. If you see my lawn chair go flying by, grab it for me.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nevada-bound/835504/6 "2019-06-14T19:52:43Z")
If you’re interested in petroglyphs you might want to check out [Grimes Point Prehistoric Rock Art Site](https://travelnevada.com/discover/27129/grimes-point-prehistoric-rock-art-site-and-hidden-cave)outside of Fallon.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nevada-bound/835504/7 "2019-06-14T20:05:52Z")
Ah, petroglyphs! I’ve got one in my ‘back yard’ that I suspect has remained either ‘undiscovered’ or ‘undocumented and forgotten’. But **I** know where it is. 😉
Currently, the far right photo, 7th row down. How many dogs do you count in the photo?
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/155285423@N02/)
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2019, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nevada-bound/835504/8 "2019-06-15T09:19:14Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> Whenever I drive thru Dyer, I always play Led Zeppelin’s _D’yer Mak’er_. There’s nothing there, tho, so the song lasts far longer than the town does.
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> Fallon is a viable small town (like: real small town, not marketing-term small town) tho.
Well, I spent my youth in a town of 3000 people, and currently our town in CT has just under 2500 both towns had more cows than people =) ]
> [@Gray\_Ghost](#):
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> They’re nowhere near each other. I’ve not been around Fallon, but my understanding is that it’s a military town, home to Fallon NAS and the home of Top Gun. I have driven through Dyer. Pretty, in a high desert, dry and desolate way. Very good seeing at night. Very quiet. [Deep Springs College](https://www.deepsprings.edu/) is near there, IIRC, and they make a bit of hay out of the ‘ultra-rural cattle ranch meets Salon of Athens’ experience.
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> (After looking at a map, it looks like I’d confused Oasis with Dyer. Still, Dyer is only about 35 miles away from DSC, which is ‘near’ in that part of the world. It’s 70-ish miles from either Tonopah or Bishop, not that either are big cities by any stretch.)
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> It’s a long way from anything, but a gorgeous part of the country.
Well, Fallon is probably where we will do the military part of retirement =) And the college looks interesting.
> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> You’d be better off flying to Reno. Just sayin’. But I know you won’t.
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> Fallon is a nice little place. All the stuff you need while retaining small-town charm. Reno is close if you need ‘other’. Plenty of outdoor activity all around. Mountains, lakes, desert in every direction. Don’t know much about housing/property over there, but I would imagine your money goes pretty far.
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> Don’t know squat about Dyer. Sounds like that’s about all I need to know.
Well, I saw a vid about the Sunday breakfast buffet at Bally’s which is one reason, the second is it is more expensive to fly into Reno =) And I loved the area - when we drive to Fresno we end up staying in Reno for a night or so.
> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> Oh, and its always windy in Fallon. If you see my lawn chair go flying by, grab it for me.
The wind on the salt flats is something else too - I was croggled at the rest area that was effectively inside a parking garage because of all the wind :eek:
> [@blondebear](#):
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> If you’re interested in petroglyphs you might want to check out [Grimes Point Prehistoric Rock Art Site](https://travelnevada.com/discover/27129/grimes-point-prehistoric-rock-art-site-and-hidden-cave)outside of Fallon.
> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> Ah, petroglyphs! I’ve got one in my ‘back yard’ that I suspect has remained either ‘undiscovered’ or ‘undocumented and forgotten’. But **I** know where it is. 😉
Almost like living in Britain, where you go out and dig a hole in your garden and turn up a Roman mosaic … wander off into the scrub and find petroglyphs =)
Rob is an avid rockhound and is looking forward to wandering off into the scrub after interesting rocks =) I want to enjoy the hot spring in Fish Lake =)
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### Author:  [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nevada-bound/835504/9 "2019-06-15T15:08:34Z")
It’s gonna be HOT! And Windy. Yeah and Reno is a better airport. Genoa and Carson City are nice towns in the North.