NEVADA BACK COUNTRY WATERING HOLES

No doubt Nevada’s urban cities dish up some lavish sips and eats. But, if you’re craving something a little less refined and less confined, here’s a list of some back country establishments that are sure to deliver that “REAL NEVADA” worth making a weekend trip for!

Dirty Dick’s Belmont Saloon ♦ Belmont, NV

This uniquely named saloon is completely off-grid! Try their Famous Bloody Mary or sample the wide selection of beer, whiskey & tequila.

Santa Fe Saloon ♦ Goldfield, NV

The oldest continuously operating business in Goldfield, this saloon offers up some tasty pizza, plus favorites in the beer and liquor categories.

Happy Burro Chili & Beer ♦ Beatty, NV

Set in the heart of Beatty, this saloon has a true Old West Saloon front. Happy Burro offers award-winning chili and plenty of outdoor patio seating.

Overland hotel & Saloon ♦ Pioche, NV

Known for its spirits (and we’re not just talking about the booze) it’s the perfect place to find a local storyteller while having a cold drink.

Lake Mead and sending it south, we mimicked, on a small scale, the spring floods that historically inundated the Colorado River delta, in the hopes of restoring some of the natural bounty once found there. As the water made its way across the salt-crusted sand plains, the place that Aldo Leopold, after a canoe trip in 1922, called a “milk and honey wilderness” once again sprang to life. Children who had never seen the river bathed in it, as the skies above filled with hawks, egrets, and ospreys.

Then, nearly eight weeks after the release, the river finally, and briefly, reunited with the sea, and in that fleeting moment, the Colorado River was once again complete. If you closed your eyes, you could envision the fish returning — the humpback chub, the bonytail, and the largest pikeminnows that anyone has ever seen. ✦

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