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Yerington, Nevada

Pine Grove and Rockland

Well-preserved ruins in the Pine Grove Hills of western Nevada.
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Reno, Nevada

Keck Museum

The original building of a mining school endowed by one of the barons of the Comstock Lode now houses a museum of earth science and mining history.
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Dayton, Nevada

Sutro Tunnel

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.
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Las Vegas, Nevada

Springs Preserve

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

Lexington Arch

The limestone composition of this spectacular arch makes it unique to the region.
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Moapa Valley, Nevada

Buffington Pockets

The rocks exposed at Valley of Fire State Park also occur in a much less known but equally spectacular area a few miles to the southwest.
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Laughlin, Nevada

Don Laughlin's Classic Car Museum

The gambling entrepreneur who built a city was also an avid collector of classic cars.
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Adaven, Nevada

Basin and Range National Monument

A large, remote national monument highlights the typical geologic structure seen in Nevada.
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Gerlach, Nevada

Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge

One of the largest wildlife refuges in the contiguous 48 states, it was instrumental in preserving the pronghorn antelope from extinction.
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Hamilton, Nevada

Belmont Mill

One of the best-preserved early 20th-century ore-processing mills in Nevada is maintained in a state of arrested decay.
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Fallon, Nevada

Fairview Peak-Dixie Valley Fault Scarps

In 1954, two enormous earthquakes occurred just minutes apart, resulting in prominent scarps that extend for miles along the range fronts.
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Manhattan, Nevada

Belmont

The second seat of Nye County, still mostly a ghost town, has become a magnet for those looking to live "away from it all."
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Vernon, Nevada

Tunnel Camp and the Seven Troughs District

A well-preserved set of ruins not far from Lovelock.
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Duckwater, Nevada

Meteorite Crater

Despite the name, it's unclear if this small depression in northern Nye County was actually caused by falling space debris.
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Winnemucca, Nevada

Tobin Range (Pearce) Scarps

The strongest earthquake in Nevada's recorded history left these spectacular breaks along the west front of a range in central Nevada.
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Millett, Nevada

Ophir

A difficult trail leads to interesting ruins in a remote canyon in the Toiyabe Range.
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Columbus, Nevada

Candelaria

This silver-mining camp has been active intermittently from the 1860s to the present.
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Fallon, Nevada

Salt Cave

Red ocher pictographs survive in this tufa rock shelter on the shore of an ancient lake.
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Silver Peak, Nevada

Silver Peak

The precious-metals strikes dating back to the 1860s are now mostly inactive, but this area has become the United States' only domestic source of lithium.
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Carson City, Nevada

Virginia City Flume

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

Yerington Pit (Anaconda Copper Mine)

A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.
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Tonopah, Nevada

Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

This massive solar generating facility in the Nevada desert has been plagued by difficulties.
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Nye County, Nevada

Fang Ridge

Red rock "fangs" jut out of the desert near the Extraterrestrial Highway.
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Panaca, Nevada

Panaca Summit Kilns

Two well-preserved charcoal kilns survive in a remote part of eastern Nevada.
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