Humboldt County, Nevada
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- Agate Point — Rockhound · Humboldt County, NV
Appropriately named hill known for producing semiprecious agate, chalcedony, chert, flint, jasper, and other quartz-family minerals. Listed in rockhoundresou…
- Black Rock Desert — Fire Opal & Agate — Rockhound · Humboldt County, NV
Nearly the entire Black Rock Desert area has potential for fire opal and opalized wood, alongside agate and jasper. Listed as top 3 in Nevada by rockhoundres…
- Black Rock Desert Playa — Natural · Humboldt County, NV
One of the flattest, largest dry lakebeds on Earth — remnant of ancient Lake Lahontan. Land speed records broken here. Home of Burning Man. Hot springs ring …
- Black Rock Hot Springs — Hot Spring · Humboldt County, NV
Historic Applegate–Lassen Trail geothermal springs at the base of Black Rock Point on the northeast edge of the Black Rock Desert playa (BLM Black Rock Deser…
- Blue Lakes (Pine Forest Range) — Natural · Humboldt County, NV
Rare high-desert glacial lakes nestled in a granite cirque below Duffer Peak in the Pine Forest Range of far northwestern Nevada. Short hike from the dirt ap…
- Bog Hot Springs — Hot Spring · Humboldt County, NV
Bog Hot Springs sits on remote BLM land in northern Humboldt County, a high-desert soak with a simple concrete tub and long empty horizons toward the Black R…
- Chimney Reservoir — Wildlife · Humboldt County, NV
A 1974 impoundment on the Little Humboldt River system about fifty miles northeast of Winnemucca, managed by NDOW as a large warmwater fishery (walleye, crap…
- Cornucopia — Ghost Town · Humboldt County, NV
Extremely remote gold camp in the Santa Rosa Range near the Oregon border. Almost never visited. Stone ruins of several buildings survive in an alpine settin…
- Daveytown — Ghost Town · Humboldt County, NV
Abandoned gold camp on the east flank of the Slumbering Hills in Humboldt County, about twenty-four miles north-northwest of Winnemucca. It took its name fro…
- Double Hot Springs — Hot Spring · Humboldt County, NV
Twin scalding geothermal pools on the Black Rock Desert north of Gerlach — a geologic viewpoint, NOT a soaking spring. Source pools run roughly 180-200°F wit…
- Golconda — Historic · Humboldt County, NV
California Emigrant Trail landmark and Central Pacific Railroad shipping station on the Humboldt River, famous for mineral hot springs that once supported a …
- Hardin City — Ghost Town · Humboldt County, NV
Short-lived Black Rock Desert silver-rush camp on the west slope of the Black Rock Range (late 1850s–1860s), named for James Allen Hardin’s rumored silver fi…
- Jungo — Ghost Town · Humboldt County, NV
Railroad- and highway-era stop on Humboldt County Route 55 (former State Route 49) between Winnemucca and Sulphur. The place once held a hotel, store, fillin…
- King Lear Peak — Wildlife · Humboldt County, NV
Signature granite summit of the South Jackson Mountains Wilderness—BLM National Conservation Lands where California bighorn sheep, mule deer, pronghorn, and …
- McDermitt — Cinnabar & Mercury — Rockhound · Humboldt County, NV
Near the Oregon border, a major historic mercury mining district where brilliant red cinnabar crystals occur in volcanic caldera rock. Old mine dumps on BLM …
- National (Buckskin) — Ghost Town · Humboldt County, NV
Extremely remote gold-silver camp in the Santa Rosa Range. Remarkable stone buildings and a partially intact mill survive at high elevation. One of Nevada's …
- Paradise Valley — Ghost Town · Humboldt County, NV
A beautiful agricultural and ranching town in a lush valley at the base of the Santa Rosa Range. Stone and brick buildings line the main street. The Paradise…
- Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge — Wildlife · Humboldt County, NV
Half-million-acre high-desert refuge on the NV–OR line established for American pronghorn (1931; expanded as Charles Sheldon Antelope Range). Sagebrush table…
- Soldier Meadows Hot Springs — Hot Spring · Humboldt County, NV
Remote BLM hot-spring complex in the Soldier Meadows ACEC at the north end of the Black Rock country. Free semi-primitive campsites, vault toilet, public cab…
- Sulphur — Ghost Town · Humboldt County, NV
Western Pacific Feather River Route station and sulfur-mining camp on the east edge of the Black Rock Desert / Kamma Mountains. The railroad town and associa…
- Virgin Valley Opal Fields — Rockhound · Humboldt County, NV
World-class fire opal where silica-rich groundwater replaced buried logs creating gem-quality material. Rainbow Ridge and Royal Peacock mines are fee-dig ope…
- Water Canyon Recreation Area — Natural · Humboldt County, NV
BLM recreation area in a green canyon rising nearly 2,000 feet above Winnemucca on the west flank of the Sonoma Range. Picnic sites, camping, and a trail net…