Rejuvenate And Relax Amid Beautiful Foliage
This beautiful full-color PDF download will give you:
• Picturesque fall color hotspots throughout the state.
• What you’ll see in each area
• Directions to each beautiful spot.
Just before the fall foliage starts in Nevada and Eastern California, you might notice small bushes loaded with yellow blooms. These plants are called rabbitbrush, or more specifically rubber rabbitbrush. The plant also goes by gray rabbitbrush, yellow rabbitbrush, or chamisa. You’ll find it growing along roadsides or covering whole
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Before we take off on our journey to view the fall foliage in eastern Nevada, we’re issuing a Go Now alert for Hope Valley, California. As of Friday, October 2, much of the valley is Near Peak to At Peak. Overall, I’d rate it at 60% of the trees are
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The eastern side of Hope Valley, California was “a gold mine of fall color,” according to my husband, professional photographer Patrick Wilkes. We hiked up the gated dirt road next to Desolation Hotel the evening of Thursday, September 24, and we were surprised at how far along the color was
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There’s good news and bad news about the Mount Rose Highway (State Route 431),. If you want to see aspens turning color in autumn, this is one of the closest places to Reno. The good news? There is some fall color. At the upper reaches of the highway, about 50%
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I have fond memories of Great Basin National Park, Nevada’s only national park. There was the time I jumped up on the picnic table to get away from the skunk that wandered into our campsite. My brother called him Hunk the Skunk. Don’t worry, though. That was the only time
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