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Lone Grapevine Spring Trail -- Return to Trailhead
Hiking Around Las Vegas, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
Lone Grapevine Spring Trail
Lone Grapevine Spring
Lone Grapevine Spring

Overview

This fairly easy trail runs about 0.5 miles to a spring with oak trees, birds, and petroglyphs tucked against the base of sandstone cliffs at the south end of the Red Rock Escarpment.

The trail generally runs through diverse vegetation typical of the Mojave Desert Scrub habitat type, and during the hike, the sandstone cliffs, which are inside the Rainbow Mountain Wilderness Area, loom higher and higher, eventually dominating the landscape as hikers draw near the springs.

Presented here are photos of the return. For a full description of the hike, included directions, photos, GPS coordinates, and a map, see Lone Grapevine Spring.

Lone Grapevine Spring
Departing the spring area (view SE)
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Grand views across Cottonwood Valley (view E)
Lone Grapevine Spring
Trail starts down following the water pipe (view SE)
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Missed this petroglyph on the way up
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Hiker returning to the watering troughs (view S)
Lone Grapevine Spring
Fork in the trail; stay left (view S)
Lone Grapevine Spring
Crossing desert flats (view SE)
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Trail merges from the left (view SE)
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Trail drops to cross a ravine (view S)
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Dropping towards another ravine (view S)
Lone Grapevine Spring
Approaching a gravel wash; trail turns left (view S)
Lone Grapevine Spring
Trail turns down wash; passes right of trees (view E)
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Approaching the trailhead (view E)
Lone Grapevine Spring
Arriving at the trailhead (view E)

Happy Hiking! All distances, elevations, and other facts are approximate.
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