Valley Of Fire

Last week Lisa and I visited Las Vegas to see some friends (Tania and Manesh). We had a wonderful stay with them in Summerlin and spent one afternoon visiting the Valley Of Fire State Park.

This is a world-renowned location that’s around an hour from the Las Vegas strip. It’s basically 40,000 acres of bright red Aztec sandstone outcrops nestled in gray and tan limestone and contains ancient, petrified trees and petroglyphs dating back more than 2,000 years.

Definitely worth a visit, and we picked the perfect day, blue skies and sunny but not ridiculously hot! If you get the chance to visit, go, it’s worth it the scenery is amazing, but if you go in summer wear a hat and take water – you’ll need it.

We particularly liked their “Heat Warning” sign that tells you… “You Might Die”!

Here’s a link to the Valley of Fire State Park website.

Obviously this is a landscape photographer’s dream 🙂. I won’t bore you with all the pictures I took, but here are a sample: