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While Red Rock Canyon certainly makes a tasty appetizer, to
experience the true scale and splendor of the Southwestern deserts you need to
make the hundred-mile round-trip drive to the Valley of Fire , northeast
of Las Vegas. Its multicolored, strangely eroded rocks are the solidified
remains of sand dunes laid down at the time of the dinosaurs, 150 million years
ago. If they seem familiar, you may have seen them in any number of movies, from
One Million Years BC to Star Trek - The Next Generation.
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road into the valley, state Hwy-169, cuts away east from I-15 thirty
long, empty miles up its course toward Salt Lake City. Passing
briefly through a corner of the desolate Moapa River Indian
Reservation, it then starts to undulate and climb the aptly named
Muddy Mountains, whose gray-ochre wall forms the eastern boundary of the
Dry Lake Valley
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