Overton, Nevada NV Hotels/Motels/Lodging

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Overton is an unincorporated town located in Clark County, Nevada. The town is on the north end of Lake Mead. The town is home to Perkins Field airport and Echo Bay Airport. Located in the desert 65 miles North East of Las Vegas, Nevada. The town features a stunning landscape of mesas, foothills, and nearby Lake Mead.

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Double Negative is a work of art dug into the ground near Overton, and is a piece of earth art located on the Mormon Mesa (or Virgin River Mesa) near Overton, Nevada (also known as Moapa Valley), completed in 1969 by the artist Michael Heizer. The work consists of a long trench in the earth, 30 feet wide, 50 feet deep, and 1500 feet long, created by the displacement of 240,000 tons of earth. Two trenches straddle either side of a natural canyon (into which the excavated material was dumped). The "negative" in the title thus refers in part to both the natural and man-made negative space that constitutes the work. The work essentially consists of what is not there--what has been displaced--and thus encourages inquiry into how creating empty space can constitute art.

Lost City Museum - was built by the National Park Service in 1935 to exhibit artifacts from Pueblo Grande de Nevada. The museum is located in Overton, Nevada and operated as one of the six Nevada State Museums. The museum offers a reconstructed Anasazi building that is open to visitors

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