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....
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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 Cleveland Ranch, Spring Valley
Cleveland Ranch, established in 1899, is located in North Spring Valley in White Pine County....
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....
04 Dec Hickison Summit Petroglyphs
Between Austin and Eureka, this mountaintop rest stop offer more than the usually assortment of shaded picnic tables and restrooms....
03 Dec Mill Ranch
Battiste Racanzone came to Nevada in 1865 from the Piedmont district of Italy. He later built Mill Ranch and the Silver State Flour Mill in Paradise Valley....
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....
30 Nov Walker Lake
Millennia ago, when Native American hunter-gatherers populated its basin, Walker Lake, in the middle of a desert, was filled by its rivers with perhaps 300,000 acre-feet of water each year....
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....
28 Nov Black Rock Artist’s Palette
While its namesake in Death Valley National Park gets all the attention, this multicolored formation on the long road from Soldier Meadows to Hardin City is seldom visited....
27 Nov RR Tracks Through Reno
From the time the Central Pacific pushed the Transcontinental Railroad through Reno in 1868 the tracks bisected the city north and south....
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....
26 Nov Double Hot Springs
With its 312 hot springs Nevada can boast more thermal features than any other state. Many are benign oases in the desert, beckoning the traveler to enjoy a soak in splendid isolation....
26 Nov Mica on the Playa
She was able to enjoy running in the vastness of Nevada's open spaces for only two years, as we moved to Reno when she was already an old lady of 16....
26 Nov Indian Rock
This massive formation stands sentinel on a rise above the northeastern end of the Smoke Creek Desert....
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....
24 Nov Palisade
Beyond its burial grounds, there is little left of this mining and railroading settlement along the Humboldt River....
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....
21 Nov Ninety-Six Ranch, Paradise Valley
Frederick William Stock began homesteading in Paradise Valley in 1864. His first dwelling was a sod house, but later improvements included the stone outbuildings featured here....
20 Nov Thunder Mountain
Just off the highway in Imlay is the decaying hulk of a concrete monument filled with decades of dust and tumbleweeds. It is one man’s personal response to the excesses of the 1960s....
19 Nov East Side of Eureka
This view of the east side of the Eureka Historic District includes a mix of nineteenth-century structures plus some modern additions....
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....
17 Nov Sloan Ranger
The Sloan Ranger, which may be a Native American’s rock-hewn portrait of a new arrival to Nevada, is found in the 48,438-acre Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area south of Las Vegas....