Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

 Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

I’d read about a newly established national park area only about 20 miles north of Las Vegas. The Tule (too-lee) Springs Fossil Beds National Monument was created in 2014 to protect Ice Age paleontological discoveries. We wanted to check it out.

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The Long Way Home – Back to Las Vegas

 The Long Way Home – Back to Las Vegas

Ending our 2020 Pandemic Road Trip has been difficult to do. We’ve been out and about on the road for nearly three months, in the national forests, biking rail-trails, hiking… enjoying the freedom, relaxation and time together that road trips promise and deliver. But, it was time to return to our home base. Rushing, however, is not in our vocabulary. We’re slow travelers and reckoned we had a couple of weeks to wend our back the ~1,000 miles to Las Vegas.

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At Last - Discovering Jarbidge

At Last - Discovering Jarbidge

After a long, uneventful, but interesting trip on a circuitous route through high desert, open range, aspen stands and evergreen forest, up and over a mountain pass and down a steep... very, very steep... hairpin-turned, no-guard railed, mountain-clinging, narrow gravel road, we arrived at the Pine Creek Campground in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest about four miles from our intended destination of Jarbidge town. A relaxing evening and a peaceful night’s sleep alongside the Jarbidge River had us up and ready to find Jarbidge the next morning.

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