Park name |
Image |
County |
Area[3] |
Elevation |
Estab- lished[4] |
Remarks[4] |
acres |
ha |
ft |
m |
Beaver Dam State Park | | Lincoln | 2,182 |
883 | 5,348 |
1,630 | 1935 | Preserves a section of Beaver Dam Wash in eastern Nevada's most remote state park. |
Berlin–Ichthyosaur State Park | | Nye | 1,116 |
452 | 6,975 |
2,126 | 1957 | Preserves in situ ichthyosaur fossils and the ghost town of Berlin. |
Big Bend of the Colorado State Recreation Area | | Clark | 2,105 |
852 | 500 |
150 | 1996 | Overlooks the Colorado River within the town limits of Laughlin. |
Cathedral Gorge State Park | | Lincoln | 1,632 |
660 | 4,819 |
1,469 | 1935 | Showcases a gorge with soft bentonite walls eroded into dramatic spires. |
Cave Lake State Park | | White Pine | 4,081 |
1,652 | 7,198 |
2,194 | 1973 | Features a 32-acre (13 ha) reservoir in the northern Schell Creek Range. |
Dayton State Park | | Lyon | 152 |
62 | 4,360 |
1,330 | 1977 | Features a stretch of the Carson River and the site of an 1861 mill built to process silver ore from the Comstock Lode. |
Echo Canyon State Park | | Lincoln | 1,055 |
427 | 5,348 |
1,630 | 1970 | Adjoins a 65-acre (26 ha) reservoir. |
Ice Age Fossils State Park | | Clark | 315 |
127 | 2,340 |
710 | 2017 | Offers trails to fossil beds and archaeological sites. Opened January 2024. |
Kershaw–Ryan State Park | | Lincoln | 265 |
107 | 4,805 |
1,465 | 1935 | Features a verdant canyon first homesteaded in 1873. |
Lahontan State Recreation Area | | Churchill, Lyon | 28,892 |
11,692 | 4,258 |
1,298 | 1971 | Surrounds Lake Lahontan, a 10,000-acre (4,000 ha) reservoir on the Carson River. |
Lake Tahoe – Nevada State Park | | Carson City, Washoe County | 14,301 |
5,787 | 7,880 |
2,400 | 1963 | Comprises six units on the northeastern shore of Lake Tahoe and its backcountry. |
Rye Patch State Recreation Area | | Pershing | 2,449 |
991 | 4,137 |
1,261 | 1971 | Adjoins the 11,000-acre (4,500 ha) Rye Patch Reservoir on the Humboldt River. |
South Fork State Recreation Area | | Elko | 3,903 |
1,579 | 5,226 |
1,593 | 1983 | Surrounds the 1,650-acre (670 ha) South Fork Reservoir on the South Fork Humboldt River. |
Spring Mountain Ranch State Park | | Clark | 539 |
218 | 3,727 |
1,136 | 1974 | Preserves the historic Sandstone Ranch established in 1876. |
Spring Valley State Park | | Lincoln | 927 |
375 | 5,869 |
1,789 | 1969 | Adjoins the 65-acre (26 ha) Eagle Valley Reservoir. |
Valley of Fire State Park | | Clark | 45,938 |
18,590 | 2,464 |
751 | 1934 | Showcases red sandstone formations in Nevada's oldest and largest state park. |
Van Sickle Bi-State Park | | Douglas | 725 |
293 | 6,283 |
1,915 | 2011 | Managed in conjunction with the California Tahoe Conservancy; 575 acres lie within Nevada while 150 are within El Dorado County, California. |
Walker River State Recreation Area | | Lyon | 12,856 |
5,203 | 4,580 |
1,400 | 2018 | Includes five historic ranch units along a thirty-mile stretch of the East Walker River. |
Washoe Lake State Park | | Washoe | 3,775 |
1,528 | 5,033 |
1,534 | 1977 | Provides recreation opportunities on Washoe Lake, between Carson City and Reno. |
Wild Horse State Recreation Area | | Elko | 120 |
49 | 6,250 |
1,900 | 1979 | Provides water recreation on the northeast shore of 2,830-acre (1,150 ha) Wild Horse Reservoir on the Owyhee River. |