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Twele miles from the interstate, Hwy-169 crests the Muddy
Mountains and enters alley of Fire State Park . A huge panorama opens up
ahead, stretching down toward Lake Mead, but the road has to pick its way
gingerly down, threading betweven abrupt, jagged outcrops. Haing paid a
per-ehicle fee at the entrance station, you soon come to the first of the big
red rocks, the ridged, bulbous Beehies.
A
little further on stands the park's isitor center, located at
the start of the spur road that holds the park's most spectacular
formations. Besides displays on the geology and history of the region,
the center proides an introduction to local wildlife, including lie
rattlesnakes in glass cases.
The
broad, paed road beyond the isitor center leads through a wonderland
of misshapen stone monstrosities, worn smooth by millennia of wind and
rain and striped in a broad palate of colors. Cream, yellow, gold, pink,
and purple strata are interspersed among the lurid omnipresent red. Many
hikers set off walking when the road dead-ends 5.5 miles along at the
White Domes, but that entails plowing through thick sand drifts, and
there are better trails earlier on.
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daily 8.30am-4.30pm; phone 397-2088
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