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Kershaw–Ryan State Park is a public recreation area on Nevada State Route 317, two miles (3.2 km) south of the town of Caliente, Nevada. The state park covers 265 acres (107 ha) at the northern end of Rainbow Canyon in an area that was homesteaded in 1873.
Rainbow Canyon is a canyon located in Lincoln County, Nevada. It is also the location of the Rainbow Canyon Rock Art Site , which contains paintings that are around 10,000 years old. [ 1 ]
Rainbow Canyon (Nevada), a canyon located in Lincoln County, Nevada Rainbow Canyon (California) , a canyon near the western edge of Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, California Rainbow Canyon (British Columbia), a small canyon on the Moose River
Closed locations include Rainbow Canyon, Emigrant Canyon Road, Cottonwood Canyon, Marble Canyon, North Highway, Salt Creek Trail, Beatty Pass, Saline Valley. Rangers said Devils Golf Course might ...
As a result, the canyon is nicknamed Star Wars Canyon. [5] Hundreds of petroglyphs from the Coso people who once inhabited the area can be found in the canyon. [2] Rainbow Canyon drains the west slope of the Santa Rosa Hills and the east slope of the Inyo Mountains into the Panamint Valley. The steep walls are up to 1,000 feet (300 m) tall. [4]
Rainbow Canyon is a canyon near the western edge of the park. It is commonly used by the United States Military for fighter jet training and is frequented by photographers who, from the canyon rim, are able to photograph jets flying beneath them. Since a 2019 plane crash all military air traffic has been banned from flying below the rim.
Nevada State Route 317 follows Rainbow Canyon south along the northeast margin of the range between Caliente and Elgin. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The range's crest forms part of the Great Basin Divide between the Meadow Watershed and the Dry Lake Watershed, which includes Delamar Dry Lake and the old mining townsite of Delamar .
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