RED ROCK CAMPGROUND AND CONSERVATORY
As we continue on our Yellowstone or Bust journey after we visited the Seven Magic Mountains just outside of Las Vegas we broke camp and moved from Desert Eagle FamCamp on Nellis Air Force Base to the beautiful Red Rock Campground just outside of Las Vegas. We visited this place a couple of years ago on our last trip to Las Vegas, but it was during the summer and it was packed. We tried to get a spot which at the time was first come first serve, but the Boy Scouts of America were having a campout so we couldn’t camp here. We were disappointed, but such is the traveling fulltime life.
On this trip I made a reservation for a couple of days so that we could enjoy being closer to Red Rock Conservatory which has a 13-mile scenic drive. The first thing we did though was to start out by going to the visitor center to see what this place had to over and found it very informative which most visitor centers are that we have found. We took a walking tour which was interactive in some points, and gave you a lot of information about the area and how it was formed, overall it was really informative and set you up with what you needed to know about the scenic drive that is highly recommended that we wanted to take to see the formations in the Conservatory, to say the formations were stunning would be an understatement they were wonderful and amazing. The varied terrain and scenery were awesome. There are also many hiking areas along the route as well as pullouts with vista points and all trail heads and walks had restrooms available. The drive was very beautiful with the varied terrain, the rock formations and hikes you could easily spend an entire day and more here. If your ever in the area make sure you visit Red Rock Canyon Conservatory you won’t be disappointed.