Las Cruces, NM to Bellingham, WA: Part III Great Basin NP, NV and Crater Lake NP revisited with snow
LC to B: Part III. Great Basin NP & Crater Lake revisited with snow Our next stop on our way from Las Cruces to Bellingham was at Great Basin National Park in Nevada. This was a new park for us and I was excited. I do love to explore new places. First, let me say, it is in the middle of nowhere. Baker, the park ‘entry’ town is a fun, quirky little place and I do mean little, the projected population for 2025 is 26 (yep, just 26 with no zeros after the 26) and it's still miles from the majority of the park or really anywhere else for that matter. The Great Basin itself is a massive area, over 200,000 square miles that includes most of Nevada, much of Utah and parts of California, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming and Baja California. It ranges from North America’s lowest point, Badwater Basin in Death Valley NP at -282’ to the highest point in the contiguous US at 14,505’ less than 100 miles away at the summit of Mt. Whitney. The area's uniqueness derives fro...