29 Dec Sagebrush and Rust
Seen in the sagebrush: an old car, rusted past the point of recovery as an antique, adds a human accent to the landscape....
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29 Dec Mina Motel
The Silver King Cafe and Motel sits on U.S. Rt. 95 in the tiny hamlet of Mina (pop. 200) in Mineral County....
29 Dec Remnant of Emigrant Trail in Dog Valley
Opened in 1845, the Dog Valley portion of the Emigrant Trail led California-bound pioneers from Reno to Truckee. It remained the main wagon route until 1925....
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....
26 Dec Werrin Building
The Werrin Building, on the south end of Virginia City, dates to 1873. John Werrin was a grocer from Cornwall, and his business stood on the edge of what was a Cornish neighborhood....
24 Dec Sand Springs
Pony Express Station
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 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....
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 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....