Going to Great Basin National Park

What to do in Great Basin National Park

From the Wasatch Mountains of Utah to the Sierra Nevada of California, the intermountain landscape plays a seemingly endless geological rhythm of deep basins separated by parallel mountain ranges running north to south. Nowhere in this vast expanse of land is this magnificent theme played more brilliantly than in Great Basin National Park.

At first glance, the landscape of Great Basin National Park—mile after mile of sagebrush and pale green shrubs—may strike you as monotonous. Initial appearances are deceptive here. Altitude determines scenery in Great Basin, and above the valleys, rising thousands of feet from the sagebrush sea, the mountain ranges form a sort of high-elevation archipelago; sky islands of cooler air and abundant water that harbor a rich variety of plants and animals.

From desert basins to...

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