Valley of Fire State Park | 50+ Secret Places in America That Most Tourists Don't Know About
One of the state’s best-loved parks is the Valley of Fire, 42,000 arid acres about an hour’s drive northeast from Las Vegas. The park delivers its own kind of high-stakes drama, trading neon lights and nightclubs for 150 million-year-old sandstone formations and 3,000-year-old petroglyphs (images carved in rock).