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Red Rock Ramble |
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State:
Nevada
Submitted
By: Anonymous
Date Submitted: Feb 99
Motorcycle Type: ?
Motorcycle Road Length: 13 Miles
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Road Scenery: 
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Located
about 20 miles outside of Vegas, this route shows you some
killer scenery and fairly good motorcycle roads. If you
live anywhere near Vegas or are passing through you need
to checkout one of the coolest routes around. The
name says it all Red Rock Canyon.
It has some freaky looking rocks that have been formed
over millions of years and get their unique shape due to
their geological makeup.
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Motorcycle
Road Quality: 
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Short
and sweet; this route’s only real limitation is that it’s
too short. Keep in mind it is a one-way road the entire
way and watch out for the car-dorks who don’t know how to
stay out of the way.
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Motorcycle
Roadside Amenities:
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It
is all nature stuff so if your looking for restaurants and
stuff you’ve come to the wrong place … but if your here
for checking out some cool scenery and hiking trails you’ve
come to the right place. Here are some of the cool things
to do when you get to the route. Start out at the Red
Rock Visitor’s Center (702-363-1921) located at the
start of the route. Here you’ll learn about the incredible
canyon was formed and the unique plants and animals that
live here. Take a short mile hike from the Sandstone Quarry
out to the Calico Tanks and see some pockets in the rock
that gather water and attract local animals. Further up
the road you’ll see where two huge earth plates of rock
collided millions of years ago. They are made up of two
different types of rock. One is red and the other is gray
and the collision makes a really neat looking fault line.
If you take a side road for about a mile to the Willow Springs
picnic area you will enter part of the Red Rock Canyon.
Here you can see some ancient Indian art painted on some
of the rock walls. Checkout the Icebox canyon and feel the
strange cooling effects of being inside a rock canyon. From
Pine Creek Canyon Overlook you see a cool looking Petrified
Forest area.
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To
find this route, simply head west out of Las
Vegas on route 159 to the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation
Area. Look for the signs directing you to the visitor center.
Enter the route on the one-way road that starts at the visitor
center.
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