Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
\n<\/strong>\u00a0Red Rock Canyon, 17 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip, offers “… a 13-mile scenic drive, miles of hiking trails, rock climbing, horseback riding, mountain biking, road biking, picnic areas, nature observing and visitor center…”
\nHere is the Area’s website<\/a>.\u00a0 Phone\u00a0 702-515-5350\u00a0 \u00a0 Accessibility<\/a>
\nTrails described by the Red Rock Canyon Interpretive Association<\/a>\u00a0 Trails described in Bird and Hike.com<\/a> \u00a0Map of Day Hikes<\/a>
\n<\/a>The 0.25 mile round trip Overlook trail\u00a0goes to a view of the Canyon.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Red Spring Boardwalk trail<\/a>\u00a0in Calico Canyon is a 1\/2 mile boardwalk loop which \u00a0“starts in a picnic area, switchbacks gently up a hillside beneath towering Velvet Ash trees, and then makes a wide loop around an alkali meadow to Red Spring, which is at the far side of the meadow from the top of the hillside. Shaded benches provide pleasant places to watch swallows flying over the meadows…”) \u00a0Map<\/a>\u00a0and illustrations by Bird and Hike.com<\/a>
\n<\/a>Moenkopi Loop<\/a> \u00a0is a 2 mile loop which “…starts at the visitor center and traverses a prominent limestone ridge.” There are “panoramic views of the Wilson Cliffs..”
\n<\/a>Lost Creek- Children’s Discovery<\/a> is a 3\/4 mile self-guided interpretive trail rated as easy.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Fire Ecology Trail<\/a> is an easy 3\/4 mile loop through a 1997 prescribed burn area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area \u00a0Red Rock Canyon, 17 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip, offers “… a 13-mile scenic drive, miles of hiking trails, rock climbing, horseback riding, mountain biking, road biking, picnic areas, nature observing and visitor center…” Here is the Area’s website.\u00a0 Phone\u00a0 702-515-5350\u00a0 \u00a0 Accessibility Trails described by the … Continue reading Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nevada-federal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7595,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions\/7595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}