Valley of Fire State Park is the first state park in Nevada. It is located an hour East of Las Vegas and very close to Lake Mead. Valley of Fire State Park is not as famous as Red Rock Canyon National Park, but it does offer an amazing view of cool land formation just like Red Rock National Park. Valley of Fire State Park is a very popular park for local people. When we were at Las Vegas last time, Valley of Fire State Park was the place the the taxi driver highly recommend.
As we were visiting Death Valley National Park, we had more time on our hand and decided to check out Valley of Fire State Park. We got to the entrance of the park around 9AM in the morning. The entrance fee was $10 for the day. The first place we stopped at was at the Bee Hives. There wasn't any trails here, but it was a great spot for photography. We had a full view of the red rocks around us and there were many special and cool rocks with holes that we could use as frames to take pictures with.
The next place that we wanted to visit is the famous Fire Wave trail. As we were driving on the road, we saw a group of Bighorn Sheep on the side of the road! What are the chances? It was amazing to see these sheep and they were eating and crossing the road. We did not dare to get off the car to get close to them because we were worried that they might get aggressive. We really loved that fact that we could see wild animals at Valley of Fire State Park.
Fire Wave trail was an amazing trail and we loved the color of the rock along the trail. We enjoyed it so much that we actually get wondered off the trail a bit without knowing it. The next trial we did was White Domes trail. This was another wonderful trail with its own uniqueness to it. It also had beautiful colors on the rock and we could not get our eyes off from it.
Then we drove to Fire Canyon view point. From the view point, we could see the land formation of the red rocks from the top. We could see that the bottom of the rocks had white color, but it became red at the top. We could even see the clear cut line between red and white color. While we were there, it was extremely quiet and felt like a zen moment.
The last trail we did was the Mouse Tank trail, or the Petroglyph Canyon trail. This was the trail with petroglyphs from the primitives on the rocks along the trail. It was a wonderful experience to see these petroglyphs.
It was a great experience visiting Valley of Fire State Park. We were so excited and happy that we visited this place. In fact, we actually think that Valley of Fire State Park is more interesting than Death Valley National Park. Thus we highly recommend to visit Valley of Fire State Park when time permits!
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