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The Rocky Gap Road in Red Rock Canyon NCA is a side canyon accessible only by an unmaintained primitive road from the scenic loop which mostly only off-road or high-clearance vehicles can access. State Route 159 cuts through the Cottonwood Valley, also a side trail of the Old Spanish Trail.
Bridge Mountain is a mountain located in the Spring Mountain range of southern Nevada.It is located on land managed by the United States Bureau of Land Management as the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, [4] part of the Rainbow Mountain Wilderness.
white fir, sugar pine, incense cedar, ponderosa pine, red fir, and Jeffrey pine Redwood Mountain Grove is the largest grove of giant sequoia ( Sequoiadendron giganteum ) trees on earth. [ 1 ] It is located in Kings Canyon National Park and Giant Sequoia National Monument on the western slope of California 's Sierra Nevada .
Halfway through what actually turned out to be a grand 154-mile round-trip, we arrived unexpectedly at Red Canyon Overlook, an improbably precipitous point perched 1,631ft above the Flaming Gorge ...
Kentucky: Red River Gorge Scenic Byway. ... ending at the Santa Elena Canyon Overlook on the banks of the Rio Grande. Keep an eye out for flora and fauna, as Big Bend is a hotspot of biodiversity ...
State Route 159 (SR 159) is a 31.204-mile (50.218 km) east–west highway in Clark County, Nevada, United States, providing access to Red Rock Canyon and serving as a thoroughfare in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. A portion of the west end of the route is designated a Nevada Scenic Byway.
The canyon exposes a number of geologic formations including the Phosphoria Formation from the Permian Period and the Chugwater Formation from the Triassic Period. Oxidized iron deposits in the rocks give the canyon its name. [1] Red Canyon Creek drains the canyon and feeds into the Little Popo Agie River at the northern end. The streams ...
Red Rock Canyon State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of California which features scenic desert cliffs, buttes and spectacular rock formations. The park consists of approximately 27,000 acres (110 km 2) within the Mojave Sector of the Tehachapi District of the California State Park System, and is located along State Highway 14 in Kern County, about 80 miles (129 km) east of Bakersfield ...