The Valley of Fire State Park is located 65 miles NE of Las Vegas and just North of Lake Mead.
You can get more info on the park here:
Valley of Fire website. There is a daily fee of $10.00 per car.
This is called the "Elephant Rock" in this blog entry We didn't ride the horses in the park. This was mostly a driving and hiking tour of the park on a day that we were giving our mules a rest from the hard riding that we were doing with them. Enjoy the tour of the park; The Scenery was fantastic!
The one problem thatI found with the park was that there were only about three good places to park a horse trailer inside of the park or it was a long ways to ride to good scenery. The road shoulders were narrow and in most places , parking was not permitted.
One of the walking trails along the main roadway.
Scout was having a great time investigating all of the holes in the rock!
We were wondering how hard it was going to be riding the mules on this slick rock.
Peg and Scout investigating some of those holes in the rocks.
This ride was going to rate right up there with Haunted Canyon and Peralta. Lots of Rock Crawling!
This is a petrified Tree. I can understand why it was fenced off. There weren't many of these to be seen and the area supposably didn't have many trees. This one supposably was carried many miles by the mud flow to get here.
Peg loved all of the colors and the ruggedness of the area.
This is called "The cabins". They were built by the Civiilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the early 1930's. They were pretty cool!
The inside the cabin.
Fireplace
View from the window
The colors in the rock were Spectacular!
The looks of the rock is very deceiving. Look at the center of this photo and you'll see the person hiking at the bottom. I started wondering how the mules were going to ride here with shoes on.
Arch Rock
This was one of the ways we got into the park with the mules.
We rode through this area on the mules and it was AWESOME but, very difficult terrain!
The area called the "White Dome" had the finest silica sand that I have ever seen.
This area was like it was a big waterfall, thousands of years ago.
Driving into the Valley of Fire area from the Lake Mead side.
This was a good day trip and worth the visit if you are in this area. But, the best time to visit is in the fal, Winter and early spring. The summer months the temps can be up to 115 degrees Farenheite. There is also little water except when it rains. Then, the washes are extremley dangerous place to be which was evident once we started riding in the area.
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