Despite its proximity to Las Vegas, the Desert National Wildlife Refuge remains unknown to many Southern Nevadans.
Trip of the Week
Margo Bartlett Pesek writes about day trips from Las Vegas and information about the surrounding areas. Her column appears Sunday in Travel/Living.
Cruise boats plying Lake Mead and the Colorado River offer daytime sightseeing tours, evening dinner cruises and opportunities for celebrating special events. The Desert Princess on Lake Mead above Hoover Dam and the Celebration on the Colorado at Laughlin are jaunty replica paddle-wheelers reminiscent of Mississippi River steamboats. The USS Riverside is a sleek modern cruiser built to motor upstream from Laughlin under the highway bridge toward Davis Dam.
Sitting on a little bluff just south of Overton in Moapa Valley, Nevada’s Lost City Museum preserves remnants of thousands of years of human occupation along the Muddy River in northeastern Clark County.
One of the smallest parcels within the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service domain, the Moapa Valley National Wildlife Refuge is a little-known oasis about an hour’s drive from Las Vegas.
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