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Located on the southwest end of the Spring Mountain Range, in the backcountry of the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area this canyon offers one of the best hiking and off-road areas, with plenty of beautiful scenery for photos. Enjoy views of Mt. Charleston and the surrounding mountain ranges and valleys. 

How to get there: You can find the turn off of Highway 160 about 38 miles southwest of Pahrump. After driving about 11 miles, you’ll come to the Torino Ranch Gate. To the left, you’ll find Lovell Summit Road. In approximately .4 miles, you’ll come to a parking lot and a kiosk with information about the canyon and three hiking trails.

Rhyolite is one of the most photographed ghost towns in Nevada. Explore the once booming remnants of one of the many former gold mining towns in the area. Some of the buildings which remain include the three-story Cook Bank, a Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad Depot, a bottle house, and a jailhouse.

How to get there: The ghost town of Rhyolite is located on Highway 374 just off of Highway 95N, about four miles west of Beatty, NV.

Cathedral Canyon was the dream of a man named Roland Wiley, who moved to Las Vegas in 1929 and in 1936 bought the 14,000 square foot ranch in Pahrump where the canyon would later be created. The now headless Christ statue is a smaller replica of the Christ the Redeemer of the Andes. Along the dry walls of the box canyon a homage to "The Sermon on The Mount" can still be seen. This small canyon was a templum, a sacred place cut out of the world in honor of the universal, unnamed Spirit understood by all of humanity. The only thing not altered among the remnants of this man’s dream, is the grave marker of Queho, the Last Renegade Indian, and one of the most fascinating and tragic figures of Southern Nevada’s history; his epitaph reads, “He survived alone.” Despite the fact that the canyon is now in ruins, its spirit is untouched, and the peacefulness of the canyon is undeniable. 

To get there: You can enter the trail from Hwy 160 from Las Vegas to Pahrump, or if you are coming from Furnace Creek, Death Valley, Baker, or Shoshone, through Hwy 127. From 127 you head East through Tecopa past China Ranch and over the Amargosa pass, round the mountain to Highway 160 and it will be on the Nevada side about 3 miles from the state line and about half a mile or so from Highway 160. You will see a small monument to the Old Spanish Trail on the South side of the road, and the entrance to Cathedral Canyon is a perpendicular road across from the Old Spanish Trail monument.