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....
Las Vegas Tag
15 Feb Las Vegas Then and Now
Twelve different time-machine morphs are presented in which iconic Vegas landmarks are seen both "then" and "now."...
11 Mar Morelli House
The Antonio and Helen Morelli house is preserved by the Junior League of Las Vegas. It was built in 1959 as the home of the long-time orchestra director at the Sands Hotel, Anthony Morelli....
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....
14 Dec Bilby Crater
Bilby's subsidence crater resulted from a 249-kiloton atomic test, (equivalent to over 200,000 tons of TNT) which occurred on September 13, 1963....
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....
07 Dec Cleveland Ranch, Spring Valley
Cleveland Ranch, established in 1899, is located in North Spring Valley in White Pine County....
28 Nov Goldstrike Canyon Hot Springs
Within the Lake Mead Recreation Area, Goldstrike Canyon and its hot springs may be reached by foot or by boat....
22 Nov St. Thomas
Brigham Young sent settlers out from Utah in 1865 to establish here. In 1938, when the waters of Lake Mead began rising behind Hoover Dam, the town of 500 had to be abandoned....
18 Nov Valley of Fire State Park
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Mouse's Tank trail in Valley of Fire State Park follows a box canyon to a natural basin named for a Southern Paiute who allegedly used the area as a hideout in the 1890s....
21 Oct Tonopah Mining Park
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The Tonopah Historic Mining Park is located on the site of the original mining claims of 1900 that started the rush to Tonopah....
15 Oct Gabbs Tower
The underground Gabbs test was planned for early 1993 at the Nevada Test Site, but it was cancelled when a moratorium on testing came into effect in October 1992....
15 Oct Monastery Observation Post
From the Monastery Observation Post the subsidence craters at the northern end of Yucca Flats are barely visible. Pan right, and the sands of Frenchman Flats may be seen in the far distance....
15 Oct Frenchman Flat
On May 8, 1953, a B-50 bomber dropped a 27-kiloton nuclear device from 19,000 feet. Detonating at 2,323 feet, the bomb blew sections of the trestle from its foundation and bent the girders....
14 Oct Red Rock Canyon
Travel 17 mi from the neon canyons of Las Vegas and you’ll find the red sandstone formations of the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. Visited by more than a million people yearly....
12 Oct Searchlight
Between 1907 and 1910 the gold mines of Searchlight produced $7 million, but today it is best known as the home town of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid....
10 Oct Pictograph Ledge
The rock art sites around the Las Vegas Valley were located along prehistoric game trails leading to water holes, near hunting blinds, or in narrow gorges where game could be ambushed. ...
09 Oct Esmeralda Co. Courthouse
Goldfield's Esmeralda County Courthouse opened for business in 1908. Esmeralda County stretches for some 3588 sq. miles, but contains fewer than 1262 people (2006). ...
09 Oct Fremont Street Experience
Downtown Las Vegas' Fremont Street Experience offers hourly light shows each evening, with more than 12 million LED modules and a half-million watt sound system....
09 Oct Hoover Dam
From the platform below Hoover Dam its imposing 726 ft height, the highest in the country, is evident. The structure extends 1,244 ft across Black Canyon and is 660 ft thick at its base....
07 Oct Bellagio Las Vegas
For the lobby of the Bellagio on the Vegas strip, artist Dale Chihuly in 1998 crafted the "Fiori di Como," a ceiling installation made of 2,000 hand-blown glass pieces....
28 Sep Sedan Crater
A 104 kiloton thermonuclear explosion on July 6, 1962 created Sedan Crater. At 1,214 ft in diameter and 330 ft deep, Sedan is the largest nuclear-caused crater in the United States....
28 Sep Neon Boneyard
Las Vegas casinos have donated many of their older iconic signs to the Neon Museum. The museum's "Neon Boneyard" is a two-acre site enclosing more than 200 historic, non-restored signs....
28 Sep Amargosa Opera House
In July of 1968, Marta Becket, a transplanted dancer from New York, discovered an unused building in Death Valley Junction and began its transformation into the Amargosa Opera House....