Lyon County, Nevada
20 locations. View on the interactive map
- Cambridge — Ghost Town · Lyon County, NV
East Walker River mill camp and settlement that supported the Wilson–Cambridge mining district below Pine Grove. Stone cabin, dugouts, mill foundations, and …
- Como — Ghost Town · Lyon County, NV
1860s gold camp in the Pine Nut Mountains southeast of Dayton—briefly a booming Palmyra Mining District town with hotels, mills, a newspaper (the Como Sentin…
- Dayton — Historic · Lyon County, NV
Nevada’s first gold-discovery settlement (1849) and early Lyon County seat on the Carson River. Gold Canyon mills processed Comstock ore; boardwalk Old Town,…
- Devil's Gate — Historic · Lyon County, NV
Narrow metamorphic reef that funneled every wagon, stage, and ore team onto the Comstock Lode. Nevada State Historical Marker No. 223 marks the gorge where G…
- Fort Churchill — Historic · Lyon County, NV
Adobe ruins of Nevada's first U.S. Army post, built in 1860 after the Pyramid Lake War to protect the Overland Trail and Pony Express. Now a state historic p…
- Fort Churchill Cooling Ponds — Wildlife · Lyon County, NV
NV Energy industrial cooling ponds managed as a public warmwater fishery and birding stop just east of U.S. 95A near Wabuska. Thermally influenced water (whe…
- Johntown — Ghost Town · Lyon County, NV
Gold Canyon’s first permanent mining camp (mid-1850s), established by “Old Virginny” Finney and placer miners years before the 1859 Comstock Lode discovery a…
- Lahontan Reservoir Shoreline — Rockhound · Lyon County, NV
Ancient Lake Lahontan shoreline sediments exposed around the reservoir contain agate, petrified wood, and occasional invertebrate fossils. Easy state park ac…
- Lahontan State Recreation Area — Natural · Lyon County, NV
Nevada State Parks unit surrounding Lahontan Reservoir on the Carson River, with roughly 69 miles of shoreline, cottonwood and willow pockets, boat launches,…
- Ludwig — Ghost Town · Lyon County, NV
Singatse Range copper camp (originally Morningstar) rebuilt by the Nevada-Douglas Copper Company and terminus of the Nevada Copper Belt Railroad after 1911. …
- Mason Valley Wildlife Management Area — Wildlife · Lyon County, NV
Nevada Department of Wildlife 17,742-acre WMA on the Walker River floodplain north of Yerington—wet meadows, ponds, sloughs, and desert shrub supporting wate…
- Pine Grove — Ghost Town · Lyon County, NV
Gold and silver mining camp in the Sweetwater Mountains near the California border with 16 documented photo locations on desert4wd.com. The forested mountain…
- Ramsey — Ghost Town · Lyon County, NV
1906 gold-boom camp in the Virginia Range east of the Comstock, laid out after the Ramsey brothers’ strike and briefly home to saloons, hotels, a newspaper, …
- Sutro Tunnel — Historic · Lyon County, NV
Adolph Sutro's legendary 3.88-mile Comstock drainage and access tunnel (1869–1878), driven from the Carson River valley near Dayton northwest to the Savage M…
- The Elbow (Walker River SRA) — Wildlife · Lyon County, NV
Remote southern unit of Walker River State Recreation Area on the East Walker River’s famed “Elbow” bend—trophy trout water, riparian birding, and primitive …
- Thompson Smelter — Historic · Lyon County, NV
Concrete pillars and foundations of the Mason Valley Mines Company copper smelter (opened 1912) that processed Yerington-district ore beside the Nevada Coppe…
- Wabuska — Historic · Lyon County, NV
Railroad hamlet on the Carson & Colorado (later SP) that boomed as a Mason Valley shipping and junction point after 1881, then again with the Nevada Copper B…
- Walker River State Recreation Area — Natural · Lyon County, NV
Nevada State Parks unit protecting more than 12,000 acres and nearly 30 miles of the East Walker River south of Yerington — former historic ranches closed to…
- Weed Heights — Historic · Lyon County, NV
Anaconda company town built for the Yerington open-pit copper mine (1952–1978). The town still overlooks the flooded, turquoise-tinted pit; a public viewpoin…
- Wilson Canyon — Natural · Lyon County, NV
A West Walker River canyon and BLM multi-use recreation area on NV-208 west of Yerington, with river pullouts, picnic sites, fishing access, and an extensive…