Cathedral Gorge is a little know treasure, as are Caliente and Pioche that are quite nearby. Mind you, all those places are a LONG way from Winnemucca.
Be aware that there can by some BIG gaps between the people and cell coverage can be spotty in a lot of places. Consider these facts:
1) If you overlay the state of Nevada over a map of the UK on the same scale with the Southern tip of NV level with the Lizard, the Northern border of Nevada is somewhere up near Aberdeen.
2) Nevada is larger in area than the whole UK.
3) The population is this huge area is 2.75 million, yes two point seven five million. That is not a mistype.
4) 1.375 million of those people live in Clark County, most in the Las Vegas Valley.
5) Washoe County that includes Reno-Sparks has 340k residents.
6) Only Clark and Washoe counties have more than 100k residents.
7) Esmerelda County has 971, down from ~1150 when I came here in 1997.
8) Don't rely on place names on a map to have fuel and water. Many places are just abandoned mining settlements or the names have been put on the map by bored cartographers.
