At night, visitors can enjoy exceptionally dark skies and excellent astronomy programs. Great Basin is home to some of the oldest living organisms in the world — bristlecone pines. These gnarled, ...

and the gateway to Great Basin National Park, Nevada’s only national park. Surrounded by a sea of public land in the high desert, Baker’s reputation far exceeds its stature. It’s well-known ...

Dotting the vast, arid expanses of the Great Basin and Mojave deserts are precious springs housing ... in fact help make life possible for countless other species sharing their desert-oasis homes, ...