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For all who have ever visited Las Vegas, it is easy to look to the outskirts of town and think to yourself, Man, there is nothing out there! For the most part....YOUR RIGHT! But there are however a number of places that can be easily reached within a short drive from the city. Places that are well worth the visit. The Valley of Fire is one such place. If you are ever in Vegas and you have the time or just need a reprieve from the seemingly endless noise of slot machines and clubs, find y...

  Our trip to Zion National Park had been cancelled, but we managed to get onto a trip to the Valley of Fire, a state park just outside Vegas. Our guide “Chance” picked us up at 6am outside the hotel, and drove us out to the park. Chance had been a professional card counter at hotels on the strip until they caught him and barred him, now he is a really good guide with excellent knowledge of geography and geology. For the drive out to the Valley of Fire he gave us these “...

Decided to go to Vegas for my birthday and dragged my sister along too.

After breaking down the booth and packing everything up, we took about an 80-minute drive northeast of the city.  Stopping first to check out the petrified logs, I found the partially unearthed, log-shaped rocks rather under whelming.  Next, however, we drove to nearby Valley of Fire State Park where we spent the rest of the afternoon and I was much more impressed.  With formations of eroded red sandstone and desolate landscape of the Mojave Desert, there were many striking vie...

The Valley of Fire, The ghost town of Oatman, Hoover Dam etc.