Golden Spike National Historic Park is located just north of the Great Salt Lake at Promontory Summit, Utah. We were in route from San Diego to West Yellowstone and weren’t sightseeing at all, but had to check this site out because of the historical significance.
Pahrump is in southern Nevada and only an hour drive from either Death Valley or Las Vegas. The town is known for it’s legal brothels and for electing a deceased brothel owner, Dennis Hof, to the state legislature. Hof wanted legislation that would bring the federal government into talks with Nevada to negotiate solutions to Pahrump’s water situation. Years of nuclear testing contaminated their local water supply.
Las Vegas was a perfect location to spend Thanksgiving with Terri and Jerry. We were lucky to have warm days and cool nights to explore Las Vegas, Red Rocks Canyon and Valley of Fire State Park. It was about a 5 hour drive from San Diego. There is a Freightliner service center north of Vegas where we spent a couple days having our annual service, steering alignment, and warranty shock replacement done.
From Idaho, we headed south to see Great Basin National Park in Nevada, Cedar Breaks National Monument in Utah, then Las Vegas.
