Great Basin National Park in itself is a less-visited park than many in the national park system. Add to this fact that most of the people who do visit go to see Lehman Caves, climb Mt. Wheeler, and/or see the bristlecone pine forest, and the rest of the park is nearly deserted. Lexington Arch, a [...]
Imagine a vista that looks like a cross between Brice Canyon, The Slots (Anza-Borrego Desert State Park), drip-castles we made out of watery sand at the beach, and something totally other-earthly. Something you’ve seen in a movie about another planet. This is only a vague way to describe Cathedral Gorge State Park in eastern Nevada. [...]
Nevada has only one glacier. I’ll admit that I didn’t think it had any, although the state does have a few mountain ranges running though it. The one-and-only is situated below Wheeler Peak, the highest mountain in Great Basin National Park. Many mountain enthusiasts come every year to climb this peak, while many others come [...]
On a recent trip, we were talking to a couple that we met on top of a cinder cone (literally—we’d climbed to the top, and they came up right as we were about to climb down). “You’ve got to do Rt. 50 across Nevada,” they told us. “It’s not called “The Loneliest Road in America” [...]
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