DesertUSA Travel Guide: National Parks, State Parks and outdoor attractions
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Six Tunnels Half Marathon March 16 Around 1,000 runners will race through Lake Mead National Recreation Area 8 a.m. to noon March 16 during the 11th annual Las Vegas Six Tunnels to Hoover Dam St. Patrick’s Day Run. The race includes a 1-mile stroll, 5K, half marathon and two-person relay run along River Mountains Loop [...]
LAKE MEAD VISITOR CENTER REOPENS FEB 15 BOULDER CITY, Nev. – After two years of renovations, the Lake Mead National Recreation Area Alan Bible Visitor Center will reopen Feb. 15. Located near the Boulder Entrance station off of U.S. Highway 93, the park’s main visitor center has been closed since September 2010 while it underwent a [...]
3rd Friday Black Rock Lecture Series Yucca Valley, CA, February 15, 2013 Join environmental journalist and natural history writer Chris Clarke on a journey through the California Desert’s old growth! In this presentation, Clarke weaves photography and decades of scientific research to convey a stunning fact: millennia-old plants are all around us in the desert, [...]
Death Valley, CA–Join Death Valley NP for the second annual MarsFest (formerly Mars and the Mojave) March 1 – March 3, 2013.MarsFest is an annual science festival for all ages and interest levels held in Death Valley National Park.The festival is a partnership between the National Park Service and several NASA centers and NASA-sponsored research arms (the [...]
Joshua Tree, CA, April 6, 2013 – The desert tortoise Gopherus agassizii is a fascinating species whose existence is threatened. Starting in the classroom, Edward LaRue Jr., representing the Desert Tortoise Council, will discuss tortoise detection and occurrence in the Morongo Basin since 1989, construction monitoring, current threats to the species, and tortoise life history. [...]
Tickapoo Valley, Nevada, March 22, 23, 24 & 25, 2013 – Joshua trees are the most unique and recognizable plants of the Mojave Desert, but the most amazing thing about them may be their unusual pollination biology. Joshua trees are pollinated exclusively by two species of yucca moths – tiny grey moths that carry pollen [...]
Birders Celebrate Profusion of Color at Tenth Annual Winter Bird Festival in St. George, Utah St. George, Utah For many, January means shoveling sidewalks or bracing against the bitter cold, but for birders, the month isn’t marked just for setting resolutions—it’s prime birding time. Turns out, winters’ chill, which forces shrubs and trees to shed [...]
Attention if you care about your access to BLM lands in Arizona – There is an American Lands Access Assn. meeting on Friday, Jan 25th, at the Quartzsite Alliance Church, 6:30pm, 720 Desert View, northwest side of Quartzsite. John MacDonald, Field Manager for the BLM will speak on the La Posa Travel Management Plan, important [...]
WASHINGTON – All 398 national parks across the country will have free entrance on Monday, January 21 in commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. “The holiday provides the perfect opportunity to visit a national park with a direct connection to Dr. King – a place where you could literally walk in his footsteps,” said [...]
The Lakeview Overlook, located off Nevada Highway 172 (Road to Hoover Dam) along the Historic Railroad Tunnel Trail, will be closed for approximately three months. The Trail at tunnel 5 will be closed Monday through Thursday for the next three weeks but will remain open on Fridays and weekends. Lake Mead NRA is rehabilitating the [...]
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