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Great Basin National Park is a national park of the United States located in White Pine County in east-central Nevada, near the Utah border, established in 1986. The park is most commonly entered by way of Nevada State Route 488 , which is connected to U.S. Routes 6 and 50 by Nevada State Route 487 via the small town of Baker , the closest ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Great Basin National Park, Nevada, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
The Forgotten Winchester is a Winchester Model 1873 lever-action centerfire rifle that archaeologists discovered in 2014 leaning against a juniper tree in Great Basin National Park, Nevada. National Park Service photo of the Forgotten Winchester rifle leaning against the tree where it was discovered in 2014
Great Basin National Park spans 77,000 acres of the much larger Great Basin, which stretches from Utah to California and up to Oregon.. The park boasts one of the highest points in Nevada, Wheeler ...
Wheeler Peak, elevation 13,065 feet (3,982 m), in Great Basin National Park. Timber Creek in the Schell Creek Range. White Pine County is a largely rural, mountain county along the central eastern boundary of the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,080. [1] Its county seat is Ely. [2]
Great Basin National Park - 143,265 visits, up from 142,115 Dry Tortugas National Park - 84,285 visits, up from 78,488 Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve - 78,305 visits, up from 65,236
Wheeler Peak Glacier is a glacier situated at the base of Wheeler Peak within Great Basin National Park in the U.S. state of Nevada. [2] It is the only glacier in the state, and one of the southernmost glaciers in the United States. [3]
Tours of the caves are offered year round by the National Park Service. Higher up on the glacial moraine is a grove of ancient Great Basin Bristlecone Pines of great age. A Bristlecone Pine named Prometheus , which was at least 4,862 years old and the oldest known non- clonal organism, grew here before it was inadvertently cut down in 1964 as ...