This 38-mile loop is one of Nevada’s prettiest, according to the marketing brochures, offering “panoramic views of craggy mountains, rugged canyons, and forested highlands.” The aspen groves with the wildflowers...

At the end of Success Loop south of Ely, we were at the spot where we could go to the Ward Charcoal State Historical Park. We had heard about these...

The drive from Ely east toward this national park was so beautiful as we crossed 2 more summits and their basins. This is our first view of Mt. Wheeler, the...

Today we went low and high: low into the Lehman Caves and high to Mt. Wheeler. When the area became a national monument in 1922 around the Lehman Caves, it...

Great Basin National Park is just up the road from Baker, a very small town in the basin between the 2 summits. On the road to Baker, we kept seeing...