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Corn Creek Road is a roughly 4-mile paved road that provides access to the community via Landy Street and the DNWR visitor center and Corn Creek Campsite from U.S. Route 95. The road has a 45 mph speed limit. The western half is located in the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument and the eastern half in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.
Corn Creek Springs at Desert National Wildlife Refuge. Range/Refuge staff work out of the Corn Creek Field Station, which includes a visitor center, which is located 23 miles (37 km) north of Las Vegas, Nevada. [4] The Range can be accessed from U.S. Route 95 via Corn Creek Road.
March 4, 1975. Corn Creek Campsite is located in the Desert National Wildlife Range and was used from around 1900–1924 for ranching [1] and is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places. Nearby is Mormon Well Spring another listed historic place. The site was discovered by the archaeologist Bertha Parker in 1930 when she ...
36°13′19″N 114°54′00″W / 36.222°N 114.900°W / 36.222; -114.900. NRHP reference No. 10000443 [1] MARKER No. 103. Added to NRHP. July 8, 2010. Gypsum Cave is a limestone cave [2] in eastern Clark County, Nevada, United States, about 15 miles (24 km) east of Las Vegas, that is listed on the National Register of Historic ...
The original visitor center at Oconaluftee was built in 1940 by the CCC as a ranger station and magistrate's courtroom. The stone-and-log cabin was designated a "temporary" visitor center in 1947, and stayed that way until 2011, when a new center was built in just two months in late winter and early spring, and dedicated on April 15. [16]
The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center is a visitors' center and history museum located on the grounds of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park (a Maryland state park) in Church Creek, Maryland, in the United States. The state park is surrounded by the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, whose north side is ...
The Methuselah Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest is the location of the "Methuselah", a Great Basin bristlecone pine that is 4,856 years old. [7] It is considered to be the world's oldest known and confirmed living non- clonal organism. It was temporarily superseded by a 5,062 year old bristlecone pine discovered in 2010.
December 12, 1978. Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park is a state park of Nevada. It contains the Old Mormon Fort (completed 1855), the first permanent structure built in what would become Las Vegas fifty years later. [3] In present-day Las Vegas, the site is at the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Washington Avenue, less ...