Get out on the water and rock

Nevada's only true national park — ancient bristlecones, a glacier, and one of the darkest night skies in the Lower 48.

Skinny slot canyons and cathedral-spire hoodoos carved from soft bentonite clay — an under-the-radar detour off US-93.

The Strip's back-yard escape — a 13-mile scenic loop through fire-red Aztec sandstone, half an hour from the neon.

Nevada's oldest state park — 40,000 acres of blazing red sandstone, ancient petroglyphs and Mars-like slot canyons an hour from the Strip.

Mount Charleston's 11,918-foot alpine escape — pine forests and 30°F cooler than the Strip, 45 minutes north.

Sand Harbor's Caribbean-blue coves and the Flume Trail's cliff-edge single track — Tahoe's east shore at its most photogenic.

1.5 million acres of desert-highway country wrapped around America's largest reservoir — Hoover Dam, hot springs, and slot-canyon paddling.

The lowest, hottest, driest — Badwater's salt flats, Zabriskie's badlands and the open desert highway that dead-ends in Nevada.

One of the densest petroglyph sites in the Southwest — 300+ rock-art panels in a volcanic canyon inside Henderson city limits.