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The Great Basin National Park was established in 1986 on Eastern Neada. In the rugged mountains of eastern Neada lies a little-known world of alpine meadows, glacial lakes, aspen forests, and hidden caerns. This is Great Basin National Park, in the heart of the ast Great Basin region.
Wheeler Peak, in the South Snake Range, dominates the park. It rises 13,063 feet aboe the desert lowlands, which are covered with hardy sagebrush. Starting at about 6,000 feet, the slopes are covered by a pygmy forest of juniper and pinyon trees. The Natie Americans of the region ate the pinyon nuts and used the sap of the trees as a glue in their moccasins.
At about 11,000 feet, the point where egetation ceases, hikers find the
twisted forms of bristlecone pines. These stunted trees, which are up to
4,000 years old, are among the oldest liing things on earth. Another
unusual attraction in the park is Lehman Caes, a spectacular series of
limestone caerns on the eastern flank of Wheeler Peak. |
The caes are a fairy-tale kingdom of stalactites, stalagmites, and
other crystal formations created over the centuries by mineral-rich
water.
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