Washoe County, Nevada
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- Bowers Mansion — Historic · Washoe County, NV
Opulent 1863 Comstock-era mansion built by Sandy and Eilley Bowers from Virginia City silver fortune, set on the east slope of the Sierra in Washoe Valley. N…
- Crystal Peak Mine — Quartz & Citrine — Rockhound · Washoe County, NV
Popular fee-dig site in Dog Valley outside Verdi. Volcanic rhyolite produces quartz crystals, citrine, and reportedly amethyst. A favorite for Reno-area rock…
- Flanigan — Ghost Town · Washoe County, NV
Former railroad crossroads settlement in Honey Lake Valley, Washoe County, a few miles east of the California line. Once a section stop with a store and dwel…
- Fly Geyser — Natural · Washoe County, NV
An accidental 1964 geothermal well that grew into a blazing neon monument. Thermophilic algae paint the travertine mounds in brilliant reds, greens, and oran…
- Galena Creek Regional Park — Natural · Washoe County, NV
Washoe County / Humboldt-Toiyabe foothill park on Mt. Rose Highway with a staffed visitor center, paved nature trail, picnic areas, and trailheads into Jones…
- Geiger Lookout Wayside Park — Natural · Washoe County, NV
CCC-era stone overlook and wayside on Geiger Grade (SR 341) between Reno and Virginia City, roughly 1,000 feet above the Truckee Meadows. Short rock-lined pa…
- Gerlach — Historic · Washoe County, NV
Tiny railroad and desert-gateway town at the edge of the Black Rock Desert—founded with the Western Pacific line, home to the National Register Gerlach Water…
- High Rock Canyon — Natural · Washoe County, NV
Dramatic basalt-walled canyon corridor in the Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area. Historic Applegate-Lassen emigra…
- Marlette Lake — Natural · Washoe County, NV
High forest reservoir above Lake Tahoe’s east shore that historically supplied Virginia City’s water via the Marlette Lake Water System. Reached by non-motor…
- Massacre Lake — Natural · Washoe County, NV
Remote seasonal playa lake in far northwestern Washoe County near the California line, named for a supposed 1850 emigrant massacre that historians later ques…
- Mount Rose — Natural · Washoe County, NV
Highest peak in the Mount Rose Wilderness (10,776 ft) on the Carson Range above Reno and Lake Tahoe. The classic summit trail from the SR-431 Mount Rose High…
- Poeville — Ghost Town · Washoe County, NV
Poeville (also called Poe City) was a 1860s–70s mining camp on the Peavine Mountain side above Reno/Stead. Little more than foundations and mining scars rema…
- Pyramid Lake Tufa Towers — Wildlife · Washoe County, NV
Ancient Pleistocene lake on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation. Holds two fish found nowhere else: the endangered cui-ui and Lahontan cutthroat trout. Enorm…
- Sand Harbor — Natural · Washoe County, NV
Signature beach unit of Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park on Tahoe’s east shore — granite coves, clear alpine water, boat launch, and the Sand Point Nature Trail.…
- Steamboat Springs — Hot Spring · Washoe County, NV
Historic geothermal field south of Reno named for steam columns that early travelers likened to a steamboat. Rhyolite domes, sinter, fumaroles, and mineral s…
- Swan Lake Nature Study Area — Wildlife · Washoe County, NV
Playas, alkali flats, and managed marsh in Lemmon Valley ~14 miles north of Reno—an Audubon Important Bird Area with 150+ recorded species (waterfowl, shoreb…
- Tahoe Meadows — Natural · Washoe County, NV
High alpine meadow complex on the Mount Rose Highway (NV-431) just east of the Mount Rose Summit pass, within Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest / Lake Tahoe B…
- Vya — Ghost Town · Washoe County, NV
Remote northwestern Washoe ghost settlement about ten miles east of the California line in High Rock / Massacre Rim country. A brief early-1900s ranch and po…
- Washoe City — Ghost Town · Washoe County, NV
First Washoe County seat (1861–1871) on the north shore of Washoe Lake, founded 1860 as a lumber and ore-milling camp serving the Comstock. Once lined with m…
- Washoe Lake State Park — Wildlife · Washoe County, NV
A Great Basin valley lake state park between Reno and Carson City with wetlands that host migratory waterfowl, pelicans, and wintering eagles against Sierra …