It can be super easy to lose your bearings in the sea of swirling red rock.The state park derives its name from red sandstone formations, which formed from shifting sand dunes 150 million years ago. While most trails are well-signed, the markers can be hard to spot in places. Like many other parks, the new system is meant to better manage the drastic increase in visitation seen in recent years.
Nevada State Parks will be launching a reservation system beginning sometime in 2023.If these are on your must-do list, you’ll need to visit outside of summer months.
The park made this decision due to an increasing number of heat-related injuries and fatalities along the two trails.
Dog’s paws are quite vulnerable to the extreme heat, and protective booties might be a good idea. Also, if exploring with your furry friend during the scorching hot summer months, make sure you check the temperature of the rock/sand and be mindful of your friend’s paw pads. This is an increasingly uncommon privilege. Dogs are allowed on all trails on a six-foot leash.The park is open from sunrise to sunset only (unless camping).Overnight camping is $25 for out-of-state vehicles, discounted to $20 for NV vehicles (additional fees apply for utility hookups). The day-use fee is $15 for out-of-state vehicles and $10 for NV vehicles.Given how much we enjoyed our first visit, I wouldn’t hesitate to return if we again found ourselves in the area. With the exception of Rainbow Vista, all can be found at the western end of the park and all are just steps off the Valley of Fire Highway. Other sites we missed that you may want to check out include: The Beehives, Atlatl Rock, Petrified Logs Loop, Fire Cave/Windstone Arch, and Rainbow Vista. Tacking on one or more of those would likely require a longer visit. That said, there are also a few longer trails (Prospect, Pinnacles, Old Arrowhead Road and Charlie’s Spring) that are 5–6 miles one-way. Most of the trails here are short, flat and easy, with the biggest obstacle likely being that scorching desert sun.
#MAP OF VALLEY OF FIRE STATE PARK FULL#
If you want to see most of the main attractions in the park, it’ll probably take you a full day to explore. While we felt quite satisfied with our half day in the Valley of Fire, we by no means combed the whole park. The patchwork of colors, textures, and patterns woven throughout the rock here were easily some of the most eye-catching we’ve seen, and it was incredibly fun to explore and to photograph. However, we totally underestimated this one. The desert isn’t really our place, and we kind of figured it would be just another somewhat scenic swath of red rock. Having visited a host of state and national parks throughout Utah and Arizona, we had initially tempered our expectations. Here, a vast expanse of Jurassic-period Aztec sandstone ignites the valley beneath a row of saw-toothed, limestone mountains. Valley of Fire is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful state parks we’ve visited. A decade later, in 1934, Valley of Fire officially opened as Nevada’s first state park. The area became known as the Valley of Fire roughly a century ago, when a AAA official traveling along the park’s primitive road at sunset witnessed the smoldering red sandstone. Located just an hour’s drive (fifty miles) northeast of Las Vegas, Valley of Fire is an absolute gem tucked away in the Mojave Desert.
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