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Spring break. The phrase conjures many thoughts, but for parents it’s one simple question— where should we take the kids? The weather can be mercurial, much like the kids’ moods, but staying home is just not an option. Across the Silver State, spring break can be celebrated indoors and out, with adventures both near and far. Here are just a few. 

Dean Martin serenades me through the stereo speakers as I drool over the menu at Papa’s Ranch House in Wadsworth. The table I’m seated at is surrounded by an eclectic collection of sports memorabilia, historical photographs, and paintings. Aromas of pan-seared artichoke hearts and fresh-baked pizza crust fill the room.

Oily indigo smoke billowed from a circular opening in the top of a strange beehive shrine, marking the near completion of a process as foreign as the 1800s Nevada frontier had ever seen. Weeks prior, cords of juniper and pinyon were lain into the rocky tomb, set ablaze, and cooked in the oxygen-starved environment, as observant eyes kept watch of the smoke, and attentive hands operated a series of flues. At first, the smoke burned white, then yellow for a couple days, then dark blue, marking the completion of the process. An uninformed Nevada frontiersman who witnessed these makeshift mausoleums may have attributed the colossal bulbous structures to the occult, maybe even gone as far as to believe they were a portal to the underworld.

If you’ve ever traveled east from Reno, Fernley, or Lovelock to Winnemucca, you’ve driven by it. You might not have thought twice to look, and if you didn’t, you could easily have missed it even though it abuts Interstate 80.

The rural Nevada activists haven’t learned to say, “No.” BY ANN HENDERSON | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007 Extended Online Version Don and Carol Shanks of Pioche describe themselves as “gross underachievers.” Hardly. […]

100 years ago, a devastating flood dealt this small northwestern Nevada mining camp its deathblow. BY MATTHEW B. BROWN | JULY/AUGUST 2012 Just prior to 5 p.m. on Thursday, July […]

  Literacy Caches Hunting for Treasures in Nevada’s Hidden Bookstores BY ANNIE FLANZRAICH Remnants of treasure hunts punctuate Nevada’s arid landscape. The state’s ghost towns—oblique wooden structures, crumbling under the […]

By Karen (Lani) Cazier This Nevadan’s family has been calling the Silver State home for 122 years. I guess you’d say I am embedded—it’s in my blood. Nevada is where […]

Nevada’s wildlife sanctuaries rescue animals while educating and entertaining visitors.

Pack the car, fasten the booster seats, and get ready to explore national parks by starlight, spot bighorn sheep on cliffsides, enter century-old mining tunnels, and unwind at family-friendly resorts. With its wide-open spaces and one-of-a-kind attractions, your next unforgettable family vacation starts in the Silver State.