Thunder Mountain Monument
Thunder Mountain - Imlay, Nevada
In 1921, a man named Frank Sidney Van Zant was born in Oklahoma. He was of partial Creek Indian descent. According to newspapers, Van Zant claimed that a medicine woman prophesied the following, "In the final days, there shall rise up a place called Thunder Mountain." and only those who lived there would survive the apocalypse.
Shortly thereafter, Frank Van Zant moved to Nevada and became Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder. For the next 21 years he worked on a collection of buildings and sculptures that were built out of bottles, car parts, wood, and other debris. The resulting creation, Thunder Mountain Park, was officially designated a National Monument after its creator’s suicide in 1989.
It’s located just off Interstate 80 near Imlay, Nevada. 120 miles east of Reno.
View a slide show of The Thunder Mountain National Monument.
Source: National Parks Service
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