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TheLabRatKing

Best described in the obsolete term “Naturalist”. Biologist, retired sailor, artist, Jack of all trades and solo adventurer.

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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Added by ekoptev

Richfield, Utah

Pando, the Trembling Giant

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

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Garnet Hill Rockhound Area

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

White Pine County, Nevada

Hamilton Ghost Town

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

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The Shoe Tree of Middlegate

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

Baker Archaeological Site

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

Added by Emily Sue

Battle Mountain, Nevada

Armpit of America

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

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Searchlight, Nevada

Grapevine Canyon Petroglyphs

Thousands of glyphs created by an unknown culture decorate the rock formations of this canyon.

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Incline Village, Nevada

The Flume Trail

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

Added by Jeremy D

Prometheus Tree Stump

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

Josh

Tonopah, Nevada

Lunar Crater

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

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Pyramid Lake

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

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Henderson, Nevada

Ethel M Botanical Cactus Garden

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

Britta Shoot

Added by Britta Shoot

Lehman Caves

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

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The Bristlecone Pines of the Great Basin

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Added by LongNow

Gerlach, Nevada

Fly Geyser

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Tre

Thompson Springs, Utah

Sego Canyon Rock Art

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

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Lincoln Highway Bridge

The only remains of a 1918 section of Route 30.

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Checkerboard Mesa

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

Dr Alan P Newman

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Paul Bunyan's Woodpile

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

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Hutchings Museum Institute

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

Josh

Moqui Cave

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

Added by jooltman

Green River, Utah

Buckhorn Wash Pictograph Panel

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Added by zackofalltrades

Panguitch, Utah

The Cassidy Trail

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

Dr Alan P Newman

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