Red Rock Canyon
Red Rock Canyon Visitor Center
Mojave Desert, Nevada
White-tailed Antelope Squirrel. Contact with the ground quickly draws out excess heat.
The area is 195,819 acres and is visited by more than one million people each year.
White-tailed Antelope Squirrel
Lunch Time at Red Rock Canyon
The Red Rock area has a complex geological history, which over millions of years, helped create the region's dramatic landscape. July 21, 2006.
Mojave Desert
Some 600 species of plants are known in the area. Common types in the valley floor include the Joshua tree, Mojave yucca, banana yucca, creosote, and blackbrush. July 21, 2006.2006
Admiring the view. 7/21/2006.
Don't fall!
The conservation area is one of the easternmost parts of the Mojave Desert. July 21, 2006.
Mojave Desert, July 2006
Red Rock Canyon July 2006
Wild burros are a familiar sight, as are rabbits and ground squirrels. Desert bighorn sheep are occasionally seen at higher elevations. July 21, 2006
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