A Morning Walk on the Historic Railroad Tunnel Trail

A Morning Walk on the Historic Railroad Tunnel Trail

One of our favorite places to walk locally is the Historic Railroad Tunnel Trail in Lake Mead National Recreation Area. It’s a fairly easy 4-mile out and back, hard-packed gravel path on the abandoned railroad line that was built to transport materials and supplies for the construction of the Hoover Dam back in the early 1930s.

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Nevada's Ice Age Fossils State Park

 Nevada's Ice Age Fossils State Park

Opened in January 2024, Ice Age Fossils State Park is Nevada’s newest state park. It’s a 315-acre park in the Tule (TOO-lee) Springs area that highlights the area’s wealth of paleontological and historical riches. They refer to it as “A New Park With Old Bones’.

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