Tue 31 Jul 2012
As my long time readers may recall, I always go to Las Vegas for a conference each year. I always try to go for a quick road trip after one of the conference days. Vegas is fun, but I also find it great to leave the action and see something else. This year, on a recommendation from my sister, I decided to check out the “Valley of fire”, which is under 1h away from Las Vegas.
As in previous years, my awesome buddy Mathieu, who I only get to see 1-2 times per year joined me in Las Vegas. So here we are!
As usual, the roads were immaculate and as expected, the scenery was really pretty. Lots of reddish mountains, hence the name!
This view made it all worth it!
This arch, which is simply called “Arch rock” was definitely one of the highlights of this trip.
Oh … so we are in the desert and its July. This was the hottest we saw. For non F people, this is +-44c. HOT!!!!!!
Back to the madness of Las Vegas and all its evening traffic on The Strip.
So here is the trip ; Las Vegas to Valley of fire via a northern route and back via Lake Mead and Hoover Dam. Makes for a really nice and surprisingly quick Las Vegas road trip. Definitely worth it. Make sure to bring plenty of water with you ; if you get out of your car at anytime, dehydration could come really fast. Note that you will also cross 2 national park which will incur 2 x 10$ fee (per car) Well worth it anyway.
I was just in vegas last week as well, but didn’t do any sight seeing in the heat! I have loved your blog for years and live vicariously through you and am jealous of you living in Grand Cayman but I’ll be there to visit again in November-can’t wait!!
anne
The “Arch Rock” seems to be a very nice place, everybody going to Las Vegas bring back a picture of it.
People usually climb to the top and get someone to take the picture, but you need to be comfortable on a narrow bridge without sidewalks… and at 112 degrees you might decide it’s not worth the time and effort…
Yves
@Anne: Thanks for your comment. It was a bit hot to do such a visit, but we decided to go anyway 🙂
@Yves: There was a sign no climbing! Anyway, the arch was not easily accessible.