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In the wetlands, looking west. The Clark County Wetlands Park is the largest park in the Clark County, Nevada park system. The park is on the east side of the Las Vegas valley and runs from the various water treatment plants near the natural beginning of the Las Vegas Wash to where the wash flows under Lake Las Vegas and later into Lake Mead.
Park name Image County Area [3] Elevation Estab-lished [4] Remarks [4] acres ha ft m Beaver Dam State Park: Lincoln: 2,182 883: 5,395 1,644: 1935: Preserves a section of Beaver Dam Wash in eastern Nevada's most remote state park. Berlin–Ichthyosaur State Park: Nye: 1,116 452: 6,975 2,126: 1957: Preserves in situ ichthyosaur fossils and the ...
Walker River State Recreation Area is a 12,300-acre (5,000 ha) state park unit of Nevada along the East Walker River near the city of Yerington. The park is one of Nevada's largest and newest state park units, dedicated by Governor Brian Sandoval on September 18, 2018. [2] The park is composed of four units consisting of historical ranch land.
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South Fork State Recreation Area is a state park unit of the state of Nevada covering nearly four thousand acres, located five miles (8.0 km) due south of Elko. [4] The park comprises the 1,650-acre (670 ha) South Fork Reservoir [5] and surrounding marsh, meadowlands, and hills.
The park is located on land that was wetlands during the last Ice Age of Prehistoric Nevada between roughly 100,000 to 11,700 years ago. It is the site of excavations of fossils from animals that called this area home, such as Columbian mammoths , American lions , dire wolves , saber-toothed cats , ancient bison , camels , ground sloths ...
Cowabunga Canyon Waterpark is a water park in Spring Valley, Nevada. [1] The park was part of Village Roadshow Theme Parks' Wet'n'Wild chain of water parks located across the world, until it was purchased by Pyek Group in March 2022. Pyek Group also owns Cowabunga Bay and together these 2 water parks makeup the Cowabunga Vegas brand.
Avi Kwa Ame National Monument (/ ə ˌ v iː k w ə ˈ ɑː m eɪ / ə-VEE kwə AH-may; [1] [2] Mojave: ʔaviː kʷaʔame, "highest mountain", from ʔaviː, "mountain, rock", and ʔamay, "up, above") [3] [4] is a national monument that protects approximately 506,000 acres (2,050 km 2) of the Mojave Desert in southern Nevada.