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The Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Clark County, Nevada, United States, is an area managed by the Bureau of Land Management as part of its National Landscape Conservation System, and protected as a National Conservation Area. It is about 15 miles (24 km) west of Las Vegas.
Red Rock Resort. / 36.15444°N 115.33028°W / 36.15444; -115.33028. Red Rock Resort is a hotel and casino in Summerlin South, Nevada, located in the Las Vegas Valley. It is owned and operated by Station Casinos on 59.43 acres (24.05 ha) [2] located in the Downtown Summerlin neighborhood. It is Station Casinos' flagship property, [3] [4 ...
Lake Red Rock (Des Moines River) / 41.40528°N 93.04694°W / 41.40528; -93.04694. Lake Red Rock, also referred to as Red Rock Reservoir is a reservoir formed by Red Rock Dam on the Des Moines River, about 41 miles (66 km) southeast of the city of Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. The dam was completed in 1969 as a Flood control project by the ...
Spring Mountain Ranch State Park. / 36.06972°N 115.45056°W / 36.06972; -115.45056. Spring Mountain Ranch State Park is a public recreation area located within the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Nevada's Cottonwood Valley, five miles (8.0 km) northwest of Blue Diamond, Nevada. [4] The state park preserves the historic ...
Bridge Mountain (Nevada) / 36.1355235°N 115.4905643°W / 36.1355235; -115.4905643. Bridge Mountain is a mountain located in the Spring Mountain range of southern Nevada. It is located on land managed by the United States Bureau of Land Management as the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, [4] part of the Rainbow Mountain ...
Nevada State Route 159. Nevada State Route 159, highlighted in red. State Route 159 ( SR 159) is a 31.204-mile (50.218 km) east–west highway in Clark County, Nevada, United States, providing access to Red Rock Canyon and serving as a thoroughfare in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. A portion of the west end of the route is designated a Nevada ...
The Spring Mountains are a sky island ecosystem. With an area around 860 square miles (2,200 km 2 ), and a vertical range of nearly 2 miles (3.2 km), the mountains encompass a wide variety of habitats, and the biological diversity is probably greater than anywhere else in Nevada; 37 species of trees are known (more than any other Nevadan range ...
Metamorphic and igneous rocks formed 1.7 billion years ago underlie Clark County and the populous areas around Las Vegas. The region was part of the supercontinent Rodinia one billion years ago, situated at the equator. The continent rifted apart between 700 and 600 million years ago. No continental rocks exist in western Nevada from more than ...