Valley of Fire State Park
\n<\/strong>58 miles from Las Vegas,\u00a0 Valley of Fire State Park\u00a0 is 40,000 acres of bright red Aztec sandstone outcrops nestled in gray and tan limestone.\u00a0 There are “…ancient, petrified trees and petroglyphs dating back more than 2,000 years. A Visitor Center provides exhibits on the geology, ecology, prehistory and history of the park and nearby region. ”
\nHere is the Park website<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0Telephone 702-397-2088\u00a0 Facebook<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Trail Map with surface and \u00a0slope details<\/a>
\n<\/a>According to Planetware.com “Mouse’s Tank is an easy but exceptionally entertaining, .75-mile out-and-back hike along a sandy trail through a canyon. The trail is flat, with essentially no elevation gain, if you stick to the path, and it dead ends at the Mouse’s Tank; a natural water catchment…”\u00a0 The park’s trail guide claims that this trail has a 71′ stretch with a maximum grade of 21 to 31%.\u00a0 Check with the Visitor\u00a0 Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Valley of Fire State Park 58 miles from Las Vegas,\u00a0 Valley of Fire State Park\u00a0 is 40,000 acres of bright red Aztec sandstone outcrops nestled in gray and tan limestone.\u00a0 There are “…ancient, petrified trees and petroglyphs dating back more than 2,000 years. A Visitor Center provides exhibits on the geology, ecology, prehistory and history … Continue reading Valley of Fire State Park<\/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":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nevada-state"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082","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=4082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7607,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions\/7607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}