and
Wheeler Peak Scenic Area of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada.
We're a part of the Sangre de Cristo Mountain range and half an hour from
Wheeler Peak, the highest point in New Mexico.
After a section on ecology and natural and human histories of the region, she focuses first on features within the Park, among them Lehman Caves,
Wheeler Peak Scenic Drive, and the gateway town of Baker.
And you can drive most of the way up 13, 065-foot
Wheeler Peak for extraterrestrial views of northeastern Nevada and Utah.
Hiking Nevada's County High Points' trails meander through bristlecone pines, the oldest trees on the planet, to the summits Boundary Peak, Nevada's highest and
Wheeler Peak in Great Basin National Park to the historic overlook of Mount Davidson above Virginia City; along alpine lakes and cliffs to Ruby Dome; past herds of pronghorn antelope to Mount Jefferson in Nye County; around the old Pony Express trail in the pursuit of Desatoya, Churchill County's high point.
North of Taos is the Enchanted Circle, an 83-mile scenic byway, centred on
Wheeler Peak, the State's highest point.
5 millionacre Carson NF is home to the state's highest geogTaphic protrusion, 13,161foot-high
Wheeler Peak.
Wheeler Peak, New Mexico's highest peak at 13,100 feet, acts as a wall when storms come into the valley," explains Bret Helenius, Taos Ski Valley's sales director.
For the more active-minded, Taos Ski Valley occupies a scenic bowl on the slopes of
Wheeler Peak just a few miles out of town.
Caption: Left: four horsemen ride out beneath
Wheeler Peak to gather cattle for branding.
White Pine County's
Wheeler Peak, between Ely and the Utah state line, looms above the Nevada desert at 13,063.
This is northern New Mexico's Enchanted Circle, an 84-mile driving loop that curls out of Taos and completely encircles
Wheeler Peak, at 13,161 feet the highest point in the state.
