Posts From The Road: Carhenge

Carhenge: Carhenge sits on 10 acres just north of Alliance, Nebr. The display is surrounded by Nebraska farmland. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Stacked Like Stones: Jim Reinder built Carhenge by lifting the automobiles into place with a crane and welding the cars together. Reinder used cars as close to the actual size of the stones used in Stonehenge and duplicated the size of Stonehenge in building Carhenge. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos

Located in the Nebraska panhandle miles from any major Interstate, 10 acres were carved out of farm country for Carhenge. The display is a replica pf England’s Stonehenge but Carhenge is built from 39 American automobiles.

Jim Reinder had the idea to construct a memorial in honor of his father. Reinder had previously lived in England and decided to build the replica on farmland about two miles north of Alliance, Nebr. Instead of huge stones, Reinder built Carhenge out of automobiles. The display is a copy of the Stonehenge structures, shape, proportions and size.

Carhenge has been featured in TV shows, movies, commercials, and is a top rated roadside attraction. Carhenge also gained recognition in 2017 as more than 4,000 visitors including the Nebraska Governor converged on the site to view the solar eclipse. Alliance, Nebr. was in the path of totality for the eclipse.

Carhenge was completed and dedicated in 1987. It is open to the public daily and free to visit but donations are accepted.

Editor’s note: Longtime Los Alamos photographer Gary Warren and his wife Marilyn are traveling around the country and he shares his photographs, which appear in the ‘Posts from the Road’ series published in the Sunday edition of the Los Alamos Daily Post.

Close Up: A close view shows the construction of the structures at Carhenge. Reinder painted all of the cars with a flat gray paint to closer resemble the coloring of stones. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Buried: Some of the stones at Stonehenge are buried at different depths and angles. Reinder duplicated the stones by burying the cars just as the stones sit in England. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Sunset: Carhenge is silhouetted as the sun sets beyond the horizon. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
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