22 Jun Everyone at the Ballpark
If you were at the Reno Aces final home game of 2016, zoom in and find yourself in this gigapixel panorama....
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08 May Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
The creation of Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge was a kind of miracle, as the entire area was destined to be a subdivision in 1980. The savior of Ash Meadows was the Devils Hole pupfish....
13 Apr Salton Sea Mud Volcanoes
These two square miles of gurgling and burping mud volcanoes are not actually volcanic in origin. They are created by carbon dioxide bubbling up through a muddy slurry. ...
28 Mar Super Bloom in Anza Borrego
In March of 2017 the winter rains delivered a once-in-a-lifetime display of flowering extravagance that became known as the "Super Bloom" in the deserts of Southern California....
24 Mar Sacatone Overlook
This gigapixel panorama shows the "Seven Sisters" trestles of the former San Diego and Arizona Railway as the line snakes its way through Carrizo Gorge....
22 Dec American Flat Mill
The ruins of the United Comstock Merger Mill at American Flat were demolished in late 2014. This 137-node virtual-reality tour was photographed from August to December of 2014....
22 May Commercial Casino
Much folklore and ghost-lore enliven this grand dame of Elko, built in 1869. The Commercial is also the home of what may be the world’s largest dead polar bear, White King....
07 May Lagomarsino Canyon Petroglyphs
Lagomarsino Canyon, a Nevada rock art site on the National Register of Historic Places, is a quarter mile long. It consists of 2229 rock art panels, some created up to 10,000 years ago....
03 Dec Gold Hill Depot
The Gold Hill Depot of the V&T Railroad was completed in September 1869. The station served passengers and freight, and was also a telegraph station....
10 May Headframe of the Combination Shaft
This headframe served the Combination Shaft of the Chollar-Potosi/Savage/Hale & Norcross Mines beginning in 1875. With a depth of 3,250 feet, this was the deepest shaft of the Comstock....
20 Apr Remnants of the Old Lincoln Highway
Dedicated October 31, 1913, the Lincoln Highway spanned America from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. This short section of pavement is intact, but abandoned....
28 Dec Mather Overlook
Great Basin National Park’s Mather Overlook presents a roadside view of Wheeler Peak from a distance....
27 Dec Sunrise on Wheeler Peak
At 13,063 feet in elevation, Wheeler Peak is the second highest mountain in the state. Located within Great Basin National Park, Wheeler is a part of the Snake Range, near the Utah border....
24 Dec Sand Springs Pony Express
The ruins of the Sand Springs Pony Express Station are located just south of the Sand Mountain Recreation Area, 20 miles east of Fallon....
23 Dec Old Mormon Fort, Las Vegas
Arriving from Utah in 1855, 30 Mormon missionaries built an adobe fort here as the first permanent structure erected in the Las Vegas valley....
20 Dec Stewart Indian School
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From 1890 until it closed in 1980, the Stewart Indian School in Carson City was the only off-reservation boarding school in Nevada for Native American children....
17 Dec Sunrise on Snow
On the cusp of the Winter Solstice, the first light of a very short day colors the Reno morning sky, and also the snow....
14 Dec Tuscarora
As prospectors dispersed from Austin in 1867 they discovered rich placer sands in a place that one of the miners named Tuscarora to honor the Union gunboat on which he had served....
12 Dec Petroglyphs and Roasting Pit
In this canyon near Las Vegas, the rich resources, especially agave, were an abundant source of food and drew people to this canyon over thousands of years....
10 Dec Abandoned Mill, Toulon
The abandoned mill buildings in Toulon date from 1892. The main building housed a ball mill used to process tungsten as well as precious metals....
07 Dec Ichthyosaurs
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No ichthyosaur has been swimming in Nevada for 200 million years. But 36 fossil specimens of the giant prehistoric reptiles were discovered here. The ichthyosaur is the Nevada state fossil....
01 Dec The Inyo
The Inyo was built in 1875 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. It is one of the oldest original locomotives in North America still in operable condition....
27 Nov Peavine Fire, 2003
On July 14 2003, a brush fire on Peavine Peak northwest of downtown Reno charred 2,000 acres and threatened more than 150 nearby homes....
24 Nov Playa Dusk
Near the town of Gerlach the tip of the Smoke Creek Desert empties into the blue haze twilight of the Black Rock Desert playa....