Rural Southern Nevada

Rural Southern Nevada is in , .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Death Valley National Park and Mesquite.

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is a national park that is mostly in the , with a small portion extending into . Many potential visitors ignore the park due to the misconception that it is a lifeless, empty landscape, but this park covers 3.4 million acres.

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is a city in Clark County, in , about 80 mi northeast of . It is immediately on the Nevada- border, near . The town is on the north bank of the Virgin River, with the smaller settlement of Bunkerville on the south side of the river.

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is an unincorporated town in the U.S. state of and the county seat of . Nicknamed the Queen of the Silver Camps for its mining-rich history, it is now primarily a tourism-based resort city, notable for attractions like the and the Clown Motel.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Pahrump and Hawthorne.

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is an unincorporated town in about 60 miles west of Las Vegas, near the Nevada-California border. It is a commuter town for Las Vegas. Its population in 2019 was 29,000, and it is the tenth largest city in .

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is a city of 3,300 people in at the south end of Walker Lake. and its adjacent former town Babbitt provide housing for the nearby Army Depot.

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is an unincorporated town and census-designated place and the county seat of . It had a population of 225 at the 2020 census, down from 440 in 2000.

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is a former silver mining town in with a moderate climate, bloody past. Its population is around 1,000 people.

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is an unincorporated town along the in , United States. U.S. Route 95 runs through the town, which lies between , about 90 miles to the north and , about 120 miles to the southeast.

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is a village in Lincoln County, . It is famous for being the closest habitation to the Nellis Air Force Range and Area 51 famed for classified military research and UFO conspiracy theories.

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is a city of a thousand people in . It is one of only two cities in Nevada that prohibits gambling, the other being Boulder City.

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is 704,000 acres of rugged wilderness in . According to the Bureau of Land Management, it is so vast and empty that it "redefines our notions of distance and space" and "opportunities for solitude abound."…

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Berlin is a ghost town and state park in Nye County, . The town was established in 1897 after the opening of the Berlin mine in 1896. The town never experienced a boom like other mining towns of the age and was largely abandoned by 1911.

Rural Southern Nevada

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