Finding Our Way
Welcome to Laughlin, Nevada – One of the lowest-lying communities in Nevada Big Bend of the Colorado State Recreation Area sits on the Colorado River across from Bullhead City, Arizona. The campground has 24 sites with full hook-ups and is first come first serve. We love this campground. Campground: Big
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On to Pahrump! Pahrump is a town of close to 40,000 people in Nevada close to the California border. It is about 60 miles west of Las Vegas and sits in the Mojave Desert. A bit of trivia is that Pahrump was the location of the 1996 movie “Mars Attacks”
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We departed Goldfield and drove south to Beatty, Nevada which is the gateway to Death Valley (but yet 20 degrees cooler). Beatty is located just 7 miles east of the border of Death Valley National Park and about 100 miles north of Las Vegas. It is advertised to have 108
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We departed Walker Lake and headed through Hawthorne and on through the empty desert via Tonopah with our final destination being Goldfield. Hawthorne is the home to a very large Army ammo depot (“they” say the world’s largest) and you can see the bunkers throughout the country side. There are
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Walker Lake Recreation Area is a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) managed recreation area which offers camping, boating, fishing, hiking, picnicking, and wildlife viewing. Walker Lake is about 12 miles by 5 miles and is located just north of Hawthorne. Sportsman’s Beach has 34 campsites with cabanas, picnic tables, and
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We departed McCloud, California and headed towards Reno, Nevada through Lassen National Forest, along Highway 89 past Lake Britton. It was a beautiful drive through the forest with the autumn leaves starting to peak. We continued on to Highway 44 east to Susanville past areas where several bad wildfires were
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We love driving through Nevada. It is one of our favorite areas with long deserted roads and beautiful scenery. What more could you ask for? We eventually head into Valley of Fire State Park, an area we have visited many, many times and is one of our favorites. We
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Our goal, as we headed to southern Nevada, was to find a campground with electric so we could run our A/C. Yes, we are spoiled. It was still really hot out in the south as it was early September. We had our eyes set on Cathedral Gorge State Park campground,
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We headed south through Idaho and on to northern Utah past the northern most part of the Great Salt Lake and on to Nevada to Wendover. The drive was a lovely drive with no other vehicles to be seen. We stopped on the border of Utah and Nevada for lunch
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We headed south from Ely on towards Valley of Fire and enjoyed the beautiful scenery along Highway 93. Campground: Valley of Fire State Park – Atlatl Campground Location: Overton, Nevada Site: 39 (pull-thru) Cost: $30 Services: W/E (50AMP) Comments: One of our favourite campgrounds. Not only is the scenery
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