Water in Nevada

The birthplace of Las Vegas is now preserved as a historic and natural area.

Nevada's second-newest state park offers camping, fishing, hiking, and river float trips.

The first project by the Bureau of Reclamation illustrates both the upsides and downsides of reclamation.

The site of an improbable and ill-fated attempt to use dammed floodwaters for irrigation.

In the little-known Pine Forest Range in northwestern Nevada, a natural lake of glacial origin.

Ruins of the original wooden flume that carried water to Virginia City are still visible high on the Virginia Range.

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

As fallout from an irrigation project, a formerly cottonwood-lined stream is now a sandy, desolate, post-apocalyptic channel lined with weathered stumps and tumbleweeds.

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."