By state
National parks in Nevada
Every National Park Service unit in Nevada, scored and ranked by our Experience Score.
100ESSENTIAL
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National Park · CA
Death Valley National Park
Death Valley is not a park you visit casually.
100ESSENTIAL
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National Recreation Area · AZ
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Lake Mead is the rare federal land that functions less like a wilderness retreat and more like a full-service outdoor resort.
91ESSENTIAL
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National Park · NV
Great Basin National Park
Great Basin is one of the least-visited national parks in the lower 48, and that is precisely the point.
62WORTH IT
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National Historic Trail · CA
California National Historic Trail
This is not a park you visit so much as a history you inhabit across a 5,000-mile corridor.
62WORTH IT
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National Monument · NV
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Tule Springs is a genuinely unusual find: a free fossil beds monument sitting on the edge of Las Vegas that asks you to think about Ice Age megafauna and ancient wetlands rather than slot machines.
61WORTH IT
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National Historic Trail · CA
Pony Express National Historic Trail
The Pony Express Trail is less a destination than a framework for a road trip across the American interior.
52NICHE
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National Historic Trail · AZ
Old Spanish National Historic Trail
The Old Spanish National Historic Trail is less a destination than a framework, a 2,700-mile spine connecting museums, scenic roads, and trailheads across six states that trace the old mule-pack trading routes between Santa Fe and Los Angeles.