Crack in the rock near petroglyphs at the Valley of Fire
I arrived in Las Vegas on Sunday night (Kristen and I stayed in the hotel room left over from the bachelorette party she was at over the weekend). We picked up the car + bikes in the early afternoon on Monday and headed up to meet my family in Jackson Hole (we stopped in Provo for the night before completing the drive on Tuesday).
On the way, we stopped at the Valley of Fire state park, about an hour outside Las Vegas. This is one of those places that qualifies as a ‘best kept secret’. Most people spend their Vegas trip gambling, golfing, shooting automatic weapons at that insane gun range, or whatever. But I’d bet almost nobody goes to see this place. Too bad – it’s a wacky area of bright red stone just off the shore of Lake Mead. There are petroglyphs, natural arches, and all sorts of other cool rock formations. Well worth the trip.
Oh, and our car thermometer hit a new record high – 112F!
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