Basin and Range National Monument
National Monument · Alamo, Nevada
Basin and Range National Monument is roughly 704,000 acres of empty high desert in Lincoln and Nye counties of southeastern Nevada, designated by presidential proclamation in 2015 and managed by the Bureau of Land Management. It protects a textbook slice of the Great Basin: the broad sagebrush floors of Garden Valley and Coal Valley and the long, tilted ranges between them, including the Worthington and Seaman ranges and Mount Irish. The monument also shelters thousands of years of human history, from the petroglyph panels of the Mount Irish Archaeological District, the White River Narrows and the Shooting Gallery to the ruins of pioneer ranches. Inside it, on private land, sits CITY, Michael Heizer's vast land-art sculpture, open to a handful of visitors by reservation only. There is no visitor centre, no water, no fuel and almost no cell signal; the nearest services are in Alamo, Hiko, Ash Springs, Rachel and Caliente. This is a place for people who want empty country, dark skies and rock art, reached on long gravel roads, not a sightseeing stop.
State Route 318, Alamo, Nevada, 89001, United States
NO OPENING TIME HERE WAS CHECKED. The typical pattern: the monument is open public land with no gate, open 24 hours a day, every day of the year, with no fee and no visitor centre; BLM offices that answer questions keep weekday office hours in Caliente or Ely. CITY is open only on arranged visits in a limited seasonal window set by the Triple Aught Foundation. The traps that ruin a day are arriving without a CITY booking and expecting to walk in, setting off on half a tank, one spare tyre and no map, driving dirt roads after a storm, underestimating how long gravel takes, and arriving after dark without a camp plan. Confirm current conditions before relying on them.
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