Great Basin National Park feels like you have the whole park to yourself. That’s just one reason why it’s so special.

The Great Basin includes most of Nevada, the western half of Utah, part of eastern California, and southeastern Oregon. It is named the “Great Basin” because none of the water within it drains out to ...

62 Parks Traveler started with a simple goal: to visit every U.S. national park in one year. Avid backpacker and public-lands nerd Emily Pennington saved up, built out a tiny van to travel and live in ...

The oldest tree species is the Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva). The oldest tree of the species is named Methuselah and is more than 4,800 years old. The longevity of the Great Basin ...

I sped across a golden basin full of sagebrush and edged by hillsides spotted with pinyon and juniper trees. We were at mile 135 of a 400-mile drive across Nevada’s high desert to Great Basin National ...

Great Basin National Park is one of America's least visited national parks, despite being free to enter. The park's landscape features alpine scenery, bristlecone pines, and the Lehman Caves. BAKER, ...

The long drive between Salt Lake City, Utah and Reno, Nevada on Interstate 80 feels endless, the landscape timeless. But these basins and ranges of the Great Basin Desert are changing dramatically.

I’m standing on the shores of Summer Lake, or, to be more accurate, what used to be a lakeshore but is now a dry lakebed in Oregon’s high desert. I’m here with a group of writers, scientists and ...