Saturday, April 14, 2018

Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge

One of the days we were in the area of Death Valley National Park we traveled out of the park by way of Beatty, Nevada, and spent most of the day at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada's Amargosa Valley.  The refuge is an oasis in the desert and we hiked to some of the springs, swam in the reservoir, climbed some of the cliffs, saw the pupfish for which the refuge is known, and had a great day with hardly anyone around.

Crystal Spring and Visitors' Center Area




Corkscrew Mesquite




Jackrabbit



Longstreet House and Spring

(Jack Longstreet was an outlaw who lived in the area)





Pupfish

(each spring in the park has its own variety of pupfish)


Crystal Reservoir


Point of Rocks Area






Spring Meadows

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