Places pasour Wants to Go

A large wave-cut arch in limestone, carved by Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, is perched atop a ridge.

The limestone composition of this spectacular arch makes it unique to the region.

A photogenic rock-art site that is also a popular climbing and canyoneering area.

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.

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

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.

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

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

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."

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

An unusual waterfall in the Santa Rosa Range, within the Great Basin of Nevada.

An attractive alpine lake at 8,400 feet that is accessible via a paved road.

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

Harder layers in colorful sandstone weather out as prominent “fins" and even more intricate and bizarre shapes.

Drive up a paved road into "Nevada's Yosemite" for exquisite views and mountain hiking in an alpine setting.

A spectacular but little-known slot canyon in extreme northern Nevada, with sheer walls nearly 500 feet high and a perennial stream.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.

One of the best places to dig—some say on the planet—for six different types of chalcedony.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

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