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It’s older, wilder and darker than you’d expect
Two hours north of Las Vegas, past the neon and the interstate, the Nevada desert opens into something that doesn’t feel like it belongs to the same state.
Basin and Range National Monument stretches across 704,000 acres of southeastern Nevada, wide enough to swallow entire mountain ranges whole.
Ancient rock carvings, skies dark enough to show you the Milky Way, and one of the largest artworks ever built all share this ground. Most people have never heard of it…