The Red Rock Canyon Conservation area is maintained by the BLM and they provide a campground near the canyon for visitors.
Not a bad campground, minimal space between sites, sparse vegetation, pit toilets, water and packed gravel for pads. I paid $20 per night, and I now realize i overpaid by half as I now qualify under the Lifetime Pass issued to me recently by the NPS. Oh well, live and learn.
Dawn provided a decent sunrise:
After a leisurely breakfast, I geared up and motored out of the campground on Scarlett to go check out the scenic loop within the Red Rock Canyon. I flashed my Lifetime Pass and was waved through, saving $10 for a motorcycle rider.
It's a 13 mile loop, and the rock formations are fine I supposed. Perhaps I'm getting a bit jaded once again with scenic overdoses; but I found this particular scenic loop just OK. Still, there were some spots where the scenery was nice:
As you can see, the clear skies and sunny conditions contributed to pretty flat lighting. I planned on returned later in the afternoon to see if the lighting would reveal richer colors but I mis-timed my departure and got no pictures.
Oh well, not a bad scenic loop, but I'm not sure I'll return. Tomorrow, Wednesday the 9th, I hope to check out a Clark County Campground to the North of Las Vegas Metro.
2 comments:
This campground might look pretty crowded given your standards, by ours it would still be called empty. 20 bucks is around what you pay in average on a German, Spanish or Italian campground. Does sound a bit much if you just got basic facilities though.
Yeah but I think what you’re really paying for is proximity to the canyon? It would have been $10/night had I thought to claim the NP lifetime pass discount....oh well
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