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At 646.71 miles (1,040.78 km), it is the longest highway in Nevada. ... providing an alternate route towards Carson City and Reno. US 95 itself goes north towards ...
Southbound US 395 in Douglas County, about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the I-580/US 50 intersection in Carson City. US 395 enters Nevada in Topaz Lake as a two-lane highway and gradually winds its way to Carson Valley where it becomes the principal thoroughfare for the Gardnerville–Minden area.
It travels around the east side of Carson City on a freeway that is shared with I-580 and US 50, which leaves near the city's airport. [5] [14] I-580 and US 395 traverse a gap in the Carson Range and travel around the west side of Washoe Lake. The freeway crosses the Steamboat Hills and meanders as it enters the southern outskirts of Reno.
Interstate 580 (I-580) is a 35.019-mile (56.358 km) auxiliary Interstate Highway in Western Nevada.It runs concurrently with US Route 395 (US 395) from an intersection with US 50 near the southern boundary of Carson City to the Reno Spaghetti Bowl interchange with I-80 in Reno.
4.628 miles (7.448 km) maintained by Nevada DOT. [1] Remainder is currently maintained by Clark County. I-515: ... US 50 / US 395 in Carson City: I-80 in Reno
After passing over the interstate, US 395 Alt. becomes the four-lane Carson–Reno Highway. It curves northeast north through the small town of Washoe City.As the highway exits the town, it briefly climbs southeast of Washoe Hill to ascend Washoe Summit at an elevation of 5,089 feet (1,551 m).
The majority of the city's population lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra Nevada, about 30 miles (50 km) south of Reno. The city is named after the mountain man Kit Carson (1809-1868).
Reno lies 26 miles (42 km) north of the Nevada state capital, Carson City, and 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lake Tahoe in a shrub-steppe environment. Reno shares its eastern border with the city of Sparks and is the larger of the principal cities of the Reno–Sparks, Nevada Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), a metropolitan area that covers ...