Nature Outside Las Vegas With The Bicycle As Your Vehicle

January 12, 2022January 12, 2022 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

Five bicycle rides in 10 days and Las Vegas is my base.

The quickie bike guide to this amazing outdoor buffet of bicycling and nature.

Mount Charleston

The quirk: snow and lots of of it at 8,000 feet plus altitude.

Destination: an hour away by car

Valley of Fire

The quirk: nature up close with terrain that’s natural art. It’s like bicycling in a nature hologram.

Destination: an hour from Vegas

River Mountains Loop Trail

The quirk: completely off road on a paved trail, so no cars with scenic landscape constantly changing.

Destination: 30 minutes away by car

Red Rock Scenic Drive

The quirk: steep hills take you around a 12-mile-plus loop amid red rock formations and scenic perspectives outside Las Vegas

Destination: 20 minutes by car from Vegas

Death Valley

The quirk: Bicycled Artist Road about 10 miles from the Furnace Creek visitors center. It’s a steep hill to eye-popping pastel-colored tock formations

Destination: two hours from Vegas

Buy your copy of book, Bicycle Man: Life of Journeys. Email me at asnel@LVSportsBiz.com to buy your copy straight from me.

Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.

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