Nevada's only full national park — 13,000-ft peaks, ancient bristlecones and marble caves under some of America's darkest skies.
GuideThe Strip's back-door desert playground — a 13-mile scenic loop through fire-red Aztec sandstone cliffs, 30 minutes from your casino.
GuideNevada's oldest state park — a Mars-red sandstone maze of petroglyphs, slot canyons and film-set sunsets an hour from the casinos.
GuideThe Caribbean-blue east shore of Tahoe — Sand Harbor's granite coves, kayak launches and America's most famous Shakespeare stage.
GuideThe nation's largest reservoir wrapped around Hoover Dam — 1.5 million acres of houseboats, hot springs and canyon paddling half an hour from the Strip.
GuideThe hottest, driest, lowest place in North America — salt flats 282 ft below sea level, painted canyons and a starry desert two hours from the neon.
GuideA cathedral of eroded bentonite clay — narrow slot canyons and spire-topped 'cathedrals' you can walk right inside, three hours north of Vegas.
GuideMt Charleston's alpine world — 11,916 ft peaks, aspen groves and a ski resort 45 minutes from a poolside cabana on the Strip.
GuideHenderson's back-yard secret — one of the Mojave's densest petroglyph galleries, 300 rock-art panels in a hidden canyon 25 minutes from the Strip.