Fall color doesn’t get much better than what I saw today (October 4, 2023) at Mather Overlook in Great Basin National Park. A river of golden aspen decorates the canyon below, and the entire hillside leading up and out of the canyon is covered in fall color, mostly gold but
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Great Basin National Park is known for a road that wiggles its way up the mountainside from 5,300 feet above sea level in the town of Baker to 10,000 feet at its highest point, all in a little more than 12 miles. That road, Wheeler Peak Scenic Drive, puts on
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Just in time for the Corley Ranch Harvest Festival, Carson Valley is starting to light up with fall colors, especially the maples. Many of the maples are near peak (50%), although some stragglers, like the one in our backyard, are still green. I’ve noticed that a lot of the maples
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I have a love-hate relationship with Virginia creeper vines. On one hand, they pop up all over the garden and are a nuisance since they tend to smother some of the flowers in the garden. And they’re hard to pull out of the ground. On the other hand, they turn
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Great Basin National Park, in eastern Nevada on the border of Utah, puts on a fall color show that’s one of the best in the state. When we were there in late August 2023, little bits of fall color popped up here and there. Nothing spectacular yet, but enough to
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