A Brief Overview of Great Basin
In the shadow of 13,063-foot Wheeler Peak, 5,000 year old bristlecone pine trees grow on rocky glacial moraines. In Great Basin National Park experience the solitude of the desert, the smell of sagebrush after a thunderstorm, the darkest of night skies, and the beauty of Lehman Caves. Far from a wasteland, the Great Basin is a diverse region that awaits your discovery.
In the shadow of 13,063-foot Wheeler Peak, 5,000 year old bristlecone pine trees grow on rocky glacial moraines. In Great Basin National Park experience the solitude of the desert, the smell of sagebrush after a thunderstorm, the darkest of night skies, and the beauty of Lehman Caves. Far from a wasteland, the Great Basin is a diverse region that awaits your discovery.
It was a long journey out the Great Basins, about a 4 hour drive but there wasn't much to see. The road we took to the park was deemed the loneliest road :l when we got there we drove up to the top which was about 10,000 ft high and decided to hike 3 miles with a 1,000 ft elevation increase. For someone with small blood cells and asthma, this was not too fun. We hiked all the way to a glacier viewpoint and then headed back down, we were lucky enough to have just missed the big thunderstorm that blew our way.
We then drove back down to Lehman caves and took a tour of the "lodge room" it was pretty interesting, even though I've been to other caves before but this one was interesting because it had 'shield' formations, around 103, and it also had 'soda straws' that reached all the way to the ground with out breaking off. I wish we would have been able to take the grand palace tour, but unfortunately we had missed the last tour.
The “Lodge Room”
National Parks Count:
1. Zion National Park
2. Bryce Canyon National Park
3. Capitol Reef National Park
4. Yellowstone National Park
5. Grand Tetons National Park
6. Craters of the Moon National Monument
7. Great Basin National Park
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