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2. Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area - Wikipedia

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   The Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Clark County, Nevada, United States, is an area managed by the Bureau of Land Management as part of its National Landscape Conservation System, and protected as a National Conservation Area. It is about 15 miles (24 km) west of Las Vegas. More than three million people visit the area each year. [2]

3. Frenchman Mountain - Wikipedia

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   Frenchman Mountain is a mountain located east of Las Vegas, Nevada.Made up of rocks similar to those found on the bottom of the Grand Canyon, Frenchman Mountain formed when faulting elevated and tilted the rocks followed by erosion, giving it its sharp triangular profile.

4. Gleaming monolith pops up in Nevada desert, the latest in a ...

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   The strange monolith looks like it could have come from another world. Jutting out of the rocks in a remote mountain range near Las Vegas, the glimmering rectangular prism's reflective surface ...

5. Blue Diamond Hill - Wikipedia

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   Blue Diamond Hill is an upfaulted block, consisting of Permian and Lower Triassic sediments. [2] It has an elevation of 4,931 feet. [3] Nevada has 45 cactus species, 25 of which are located on Blue Diamond Hill. [4] The Blue Diamond cholla is among the cactus species there. [5] Other plant life includes Joshua trees, yucca, and globe mallows. [6]

6. Rhyolite, Nevada - Wikipedia

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   Amargosa Desert and Bullfrog Hills near Rhyolite. Rhyolite is at the northern end of the Amargosa Desert in Nye County in the U.S. state of Nevada. Nestled in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Las Vegas, it is about 60 miles (97 km) south of Goldfield, and 90 miles (140 km) south of Tonopah. Roughly 4 miles (6.4 km) to ...

7. List of Nevada state parks - Wikipedia

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   Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park: Clark: 3.16 1.28: 1,923 586: 1991: Interprets a partially reconstructed fort built by Mormon missionaries in 1855, the first nonnative structure in what would become Las Vegas. Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park: White Pine: 861 348: 7,054 2,150: 1994

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9. Hole-in-the-Rock (Papago Park) - Wikipedia

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   In 1892, Charles Poston named and claimed "Hole-in-the-Rock". [1] Hole-in-the-Rock is a series of openings eroded in a small hill composed of bare red arkosic conglomeritic sandstone. The sandstone was first formed some 6–15 million years ago from the accumulation of materials eroding from a Precambrian granite, long since eroded away.