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Combine your trip to Bryce Canyon with Zion National Park or simply enjoy yourself on a standalone trip, hiking in Bryce’s evergreen forest and discovering its famed ‘hoodoos’ eroded rock pinnacles rising from the earth like sandcastles. Other than hiking, Emerald Pools is a great spot for its cascading waterfalls amidst the forest, though also recommended is to sign up to any of the ranger-led tours across the park, including wildlife watching excursions, museum talks, guided walks and more.Īnother of the day trips from Vegas out in the friendly state of Utah is to visit nearby Bryce Canyon, known for its red rock formations and ancient geological history among otherworldly landscapes and lofty plateaus. Those looking for a short hike can stop at the Canyon Overlook Trail, while more experienced trekkers can try the 12-kilometre Observation Point Trail for epic vistas over Angel’s Landing and the Virgin River. For the ultimate Las Vegas to Zion National Park day trip, aim for the Zion-Mount Carmel highway for unmissable views high above the valley, following the shuttle bus as it winds past many of the top attractions and viewpoints. Somewhat greener and more agreeable than Nevada’s desert plains, Zion offers up a whole load of flora and fauna across its tranquil landscape of deep gorges and gushing rivers.
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Leaving Nevada for a brief jaunt in Utah, we travel the 255 kilometres to Zion National Park in under three hours’ drive from Las Vegas. Any Jurassic Park fans can also take the palaeontology tour for dinosaur fossils galore. If driving yourself, preparing for the brutal heat on trips out across the plains, stopping at Badwater, Zabriskie Point and the Gold Rush town of Rhyolite, now a spooky ghost town. Despite the seemingly unliveable heat, charting the hottest temperature ever recorded in the US at 57° Celsius (!), Death Valley has plenty of endemic wildlife, best seen on ranger-led tours of higher regions and the oasis of Grapevine Canyon.īefore venturing out, find the park’s main visitor centre within the commercial hub of Furnace Creek where you can buy a 7-day entry permit for you and your car for just $30. In addition to the epic desert scenery (at its best within the salty Badwater Basin and Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes), the park also surprises with its canyons, volcanic craters, dappled oases and stark mountains covering 130,000 square kilometres of sun-scorched land. Once serving as the setting for Tatooine, the desert planet in Star Wars, Death Valley has more than one claim to fame. The furthest we’ve ventured so far, at 200 kilometres from Las Vegas, to where Nevada meets California, we find the vast Death Valley National Park. While Lake Mead in the north is the closest section of the Recreation Area to Vegas, Lake Mojave along the Arizona-Nevada border is another contender, allowing for upstream hikes along the gorge to Grapevine Canyon and more spectacular desert views. The restaurants and modern amenities dotted around the lake mean you can shower and eat well before exploring more of the area on day two, following the 5-kilometre historic railway to Hoover Dam or tackling the Black Canyon Water Trail by hike or river raft if feeling adventurous. Besides alfresco lunching, many weekend visitors opt to stay the whole weekend on rural camping retreats in view of lava hills, red sandstone formations and bighorn sheep.
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The largest man-made lake reservoir in America by capacity, Lake Mead is perfect for boating, jet skiing and water skiing adventures, though reclining with a picnic lakeside is just as appealing. One of the Las Vegas day trips also needing less than an afternoon is found within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, based 30 minutes outside of Las Vegas on the skirts of the Colorado River.