53°F
weather icon Clear

Death Valley events planned to celebrate the great outdoors

If you needed any more reason to get out there and enjoy what nature has to offer, a pair of special days are coming up to celebrate just that.

National Trails Day on Saturday, and National Get Outdoors Day, June 13, will take place at locations across the country, including at Death Valley National Park.

People are encouraged to “Find Their Park” as part of the two events, and get out there and enjoy the great outdoors.

Find Your Park is a public awareness and education campaign, celebrating the milestone centennial anniversary of the National Park Service in 2016.

The initiative urges people to find their own personal connections within the network of national parks and public lands.

Despite Death Valley being known for its scorching temperatures, the park has several places where you can stay cool and still enjoy the benefits of the area.

Telescope Peak presents views of both Death Valley and Panamint Valley, while Dante’s View offers spectacular vistas of the Badwater salt flats and beyond. Scotty’s Castle is around 10 degrees cooler than Furnace Creek.

With temperatures reaching their peak at midday, especially at lower elevations, those who are enjoying the Death Valley area are cautioned to limit their time outdoors and drink plenty of water.

National Get Outdoors Day is sponsored by the American Hiking Association, and includes organized events that will take place in every state across the country. Activities included are hiking, biking, paddling trips, bird watching and horseback rides among a slew of others.

For more information go to nationaltrailsday.org, or go to www.nationalgetoutdoorsday.org to find active outdoor events at sites in the area.

To help plan your trip to Death Valley National Park, go to www.nps.gov/deva, or call 760-786-3200 for more information.

THE LATEST
More than two dozen animals rescued from Pahrump home

More than two dozen animals living under what’s described as “horrendous conditions” were recently rescued after being discovered by Nye County Animal Control officers at a Pahrump home.

Two children flown to trauma after crash

Pahrump’s Mercy Air transported two children to UMC Trauma in Las Vegas following a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Highway 160 and Mesquite Avenue on Friday, April 12.

GALLERY: How Pahrump celebrated Earth-Arbor Day

Earth Day and Arbor Day are two dates set aside for the express purpose of celebrating the planet while educating the public about the importance of preserving the environment and this past Saturday, the Pahrump community was treated to a festival in honor of these holidays.

How Nye’s sheriff auxiliary operations are evolving

With their trademark, creased light blue button-down shirts, Nye County Sheriff’s Office auxiliary officers are always visible at scenes of vehicle crashes, structure fires and other incidents involving public safety. But there are now changes underway into the auxiliary program in terms of operations, certain procedures and appearances among the officers, including new polo-style shirts.

Connecting causes and community — Pahrump Volunteer Fair set for May

Thanks to an AmeriCorps Volunteer Generation Fund grant, Nevada Volunteers is embarking on three years of Volunteer Fairs that will take the organization all across the state and the very first stop will be right here in Pahrump.

Landscape Tour will highlight local yards

The Pahrump Valley Garden Club is all set to hold its 16th Annual Landscape Tour and anyone with an interest in gardening, plants or yard art will not want to miss out. This year’s event features six local yards, all hand-picked by the Garden Club members to give attendees a wide variety of landscape types to peruse.

GALLERY: Celebrating the lives of lost loved ones

Butterflies are a symbol of transformation and one of the most transformative things a person can experience is the death of someone they love.

Local families invited to Community Baby Shower

Raising a child can be hard. That’s something the members of Pahrump Mothers Corner understand all too well. In an effort to ease the challenges of parenthood, particularly for new and expecting families, this group of local moms banded together to host a Community Baby Shower and the event proved to be very popular, leading to its return for the third year running.

Tonopah to be home to experimental hypersonic testing facility

Ambitious. It’s an apt word to describe Michael Grace’s vision for the future of his company, Longshot Space Technology Corporation, which, if all goes to plan, will build what he calls the world’s largest potato gun.