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Greenwater Valley is best known for impressive displays of late spring wildflowers. Once bustling during mining booms, little remains of the ghost towns of Furnace and Greenwater accessible via side roads.
Note: Drive slowly to help protect desert tortoise.
Vehicle needed: High-clearance.
Distance: 28 miles.
Start: Dantes View Road from the north or Hwy 178 ...
Gregg’s Hideout is located on Lake Mead and started out as Mike Scanlon’s Ferry in 1881. It was later purchased by Tom Gregg and renamed. The dirt road can be rough, with washboards and the last mile and a half downhill and sandy, so 4WD is recommended.
Access:
From Pierce Ferry Road (Hwy25), drive 17.7 miles down Gregg’s Hideout Road
TIPS:
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Grimsel Pass (Grimselpass) (el. 2165 m.) is a Swiss high mountain pass. It connects the valley of the river Rhône in the canton of Valais with the Haslital (upper valley of the river Aar) in the canton of Bern.
It is located near the source of the Rhône at the Rhône Glacier. Also in the area is the Grimsel Test Site, used for research into undergroun...
The Grossglockner High Alpine Road (Großglockner-Hochalpenstraße) is a panoramic road in Austria, in the state of Salzburg. It connects the state of Salzburg with the state of Carinthia. It is named after the Großglockner, Austria's highest mountain.
It leads with numbered hairpin curves to the Kaiser Franz Josefs Höhe Visitors' Centre, with a p...
Guanella Pass (elevation 11,669 ft (3,557 m)) is a high mountain pass in central Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States.
The pass is located in southwestern Clear Creek County, in the Front Range west of Denver and south of Georgetown. The pass was named in 1953 for Byron Guanella, a road supervisor and commissioner in Clear Creek County for nea...
The Gunbarrel Highway is an isolated desert track in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. It consists of about 1,350 km (840 mi) of washaways, heavy corrugations, stone, sand and flood plains. The Gunbarrel Highway connects Victory Downs in the Northern Territory to Carnegie Station in Western Australia. Some sources incorrectly show the high...
The Guoliang Tunnel is carved along the side of and through the Taihang Mountains, in the Hunan Province of China. The tunnel passes through the side of an almost vertical section of a mountain with many holes that looks likes windows.
Before the tunnel was constructed, access to the nearby Guoliang village was limited to a difficult path carved into the mountainside....
Guru Road is a unique, desert-style art installation created by DeWayne “Doobie” Williams in the 80s and 90s during the last 15 years of his life. Using local stone and other found objects, Doobie crafted tributes to family, friends and local residents. Words of wisdom line the road and there are several large pieces including a weather station, a tribute...
Haast Pass is a mountain pass in the Southern Alps of the South Island of New Zealand. It is named for Julius von Haast, a 19th-century explorer who was also geologist for the Provincial government of Canterbury. The pass was used by Māori in pre-European times, but not on a regular basis.
It is one of the three passes where a road crosses over the Southern Alps, the ...
The Jebel Hafeet Mountain Road, built in 1980, extends for 11.7 km (7.3 mi) up the mountain, rising 1,200 m (3,900 ft). With 60 turns and three lanes (two climbing and one descending), the road was called the greatest driving road in the world by Edmunds.com. The road scales the mountain and ends at a parking lot with a hotel and a p...
Hagerman Pass, elevation 11,925 ft (3,635 m), is a high mountain pass that crosses the continental divide in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States. The pass traverses the Sawatch Range west of Leadville, connecting the headwaters of the Arkansas River on the east with the upper valley of the Fryingpan River above Basalt, in the basin of the Colo...
The Hải Vân Pass is an approximately 21 km long mountain pass on National Route 1A in Vietnam. It traverses a spur of the larger Annamite Range that juts into the East Sea of Viet Nam, on the border of Đà Nẵng and Thừa Thiên–Huế Province, near Bạch Mã National Park. Its name refers to the mists that rise from the sea, reducing visibilit...
The halfway station served the traveling public between Moab and the railroad at Thompson. The first passenger train went through Thompson to Salt Lake in April of 1883. The railroad was 35 miles from Moab. The halfway house was a place to eat a meal, change horses, rest a spell, or sleep overnight. Since the trip from Moab to the train took 8 hours, travelers stopped...
A bridge along the highway goes over the top of Halstead Meadow. On the north side, a small picnic area and pit toilet offer a good place to stop. Black bears can sometimes be seen in the meadow in spring. At any time of year, wildflowers are common here.
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