Nevada State Route 829

State Route 829 is a state [highway (US)|state highway] in Lyon [County, Nevada|Lyon County], Nevada. Also known as Wellington Road, the route serves as a shortcut connecting Nevada [State Route 338|State Route 338] to State Route 208 near Wellington.

History

Wellington Road was established as an unimproved roadway as early as 1917 and, by 1929, had been made part of State [Route 22 (Nevada)|State Route 22], a longer route through the Smith Valley connecting Wellington to Bridgeport, California. The Wellington Road portion of SR 22 was reassigned to State Route 829 in Nevada's 1976 [renumbering (Nevada)|state highway renumbering] in the late 1970s, with the remainder of the old route becoming State Route 338.