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The Arrowhead Trail Highway was the first automobile road to connect Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Planned, promoted and built beginning in the second decade of the twentieth century, it was one of the named interstate highways of the Good Roads movement. It eventually connected Los Angeles across the desert to Las Vegas and north to Salt Lake City. The road was later numbered Highway 91, and parts of it are now part of Interstate 15. Its final route entered Nevada at today's Primm, followed a dirt route just south of today's I-15 to Jean, then followed the old road to Las Vegas. In Las Vegas, it became Fifth Street and later Las Vegas Bouvelard. The 1920s route from Jean through Las Vegas can still be followed by taking Las Vegas Bouvelard from here.
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Goodsprings, Nevada · United States
