Great Basin National Park

Great Basin National Park in east-central Nevada protects seventy-seven thousand one hundred eighty acres of the South Snake Range, where an unusually varied high-desert landscape includes Wheeler Peak, Wheeler Peak Glacier, ancient bristlecone pines, and Lehman Caves, Nevada’s longest known cave. Its scenery reflects both ancient seas that formed the cave system and Pleistocene glaciation that carved the mountains. Indigenous peoples knew the caves long before Absalom Lehman guided visitors there in 1885. Lehman Caves became a national monument in 1922, and Congress created the park in 1986. The park is also prized for exceptionally dark skies, rich plant diversity, and wildlife from pronghorns to cougars.

Baker, Nevada · United States