There is a fun little trail around the rocks and hills of Sacramento Pass. We hiked this loop on our last day in the area and it has some really interesting features. You can mountain bike it too, but it would be pretty tough. The loop is a mix of trail and rocks with one …
Our last ride in the Great Basin area went up into the hills and Black Horse Canyon towards Mount Moriah. It was purely exploratory because we knew nothing about the roads. It was mostly a success. The gravel/dirt was pretty good for the most part as we headed up into the canyon. As the story …
There isn’t much mountain biking on singletrack in the area of Great Basin National Park, but there are a lot of dirt roads that go up into different mountains and canyons. We rode Osceola Road and around Sacramento Pass on previous days, this time we road out and back into the park on the dirt …
The larger Great Basin ecosystem is a 200,000 square mile area that drains inward. All precipitation in this region evaporates, sinks underground, or flows into lakes. No water reaches the ocean. Great Basin’s lowest point is 6,195 feet at Snake Creek and the highest point in Great Basin is 13,063 feet on Wheeler Peak. This …
There isn’t much of the historic town left, be we rode our bikes out and back on dirt/gravel to see Osceola. It was a straightforward ride climbing out and descending on the way back. After a mind boggling 12 mile gold-bearing quartz vein was discovered in 1872, a placer mining community took form in this …
Strawberry Creek hike didn’t have any strawberries, but it had plenty of fall color. In August 2016, lightning ignited the Strawberry Creek Fire. The fired burned over 4,700 acres of public and private land, 60% of which was part of Great Basin National Park. It’s starting to regrow and there is still a large portion …
Our new two week spot by Great Basin National Park provides a lot of exploring opportunities. There is a great short rocky < 3mile hike with some spectacular views, and a lot of dirt/gravel roads to explore too. We’re camping at 6727′ but these mountains are high! Wheeler Peak is 13,065. Not a lot of …
Vermont resident J. W. Long came to White Pine County in 1878 and soon set up a camp known as “Ely,” after discovering gold. Ely was founded as a stagecoach station along the Pony Express and Central Overland Route. The community expanded after 1907 with large-scale copper mining, and like other towns, underwent a major decline in the 1970s and early …
The Ice Plant Trails start just outside Ely at an obscure trailhead down a dirt road. A lot of work has been done as a collaborative effort between White Pine County, the Forest Service, BLM, Nevada State Parks, the City of Ely, and White Pine County to ensure careful consideration is put into the design …
Cave Lake State Park in Ely, Nevada is normally a 32-acre reservoir but right now it’s undergoing construction to modernize it and there is a tiny puddle. Nevertheless, we did a FANTASTIC mountain bike ride there one day. We rode the all the trails out here and they are pretty fun. These are intermediate trails with …