Deserts of Nevada compared to Arizona... (beauty)

[nickw252]

Originally Posted by Clarks

Arizona is a beautiful state, although, smaller than Nevada and with nearly three times the population.

Actually Arizona is larger than Nevada. Nevada is 110,567 sq mi while Arizona is 113,998 sq mi, making Arizona about 3,400 square miles larger than Nevada.

These stats are from Wikipedia but I confirmed it with my Rand McNally Road Atlas also.

Nevada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arizona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[WildWestDude]

In order of beauty:

1. Sonora (AZ)
2. Chihuahua (TX,NM)
3. Mojave (NV,CA)

[nickw252]

Originally Posted by Clarks

Even if that were true, you require public health services before you deem a place livable? Curious, all I need is a lack of asphalt, clear air and clear water, and of course, the Schwan man.

I disagree. Even in the small towns you still need police/sheriff, fire protection, some sort of hospital or health clinic, city services like snow removal and fixing power lines, legal services like Judges, Prosecutors & Public Defenders, schools, roads, etc. All of this is subsidized by the bigger cities in Nevada.

If there was no LV or Reno who would pay for the roads between the extremely spread out villages? Who would pay for a hospital, judge, sheriff, teachers, etc?

There would either be none, or the taxes would be prohibitively high.

Edit: with the exception of the few rare towns like Eureka who have loads of money from the Gold mines.

A town like Ely, Pioche, McGill, Panaca would never be able to be self sufficient.

[Clarks]

Looking through the images of Nevada posted above, it made Nevada seem brown. Much of it isn't. When you have 300 mountain ranges to pick from, you will find a great variety. Here is a shot of the Nevada desert, not so bad eh?

[Clarks]

Here is another photo of the Nevada desert

[olecapt]

Originally Posted by Clarks

Here is another photo of the Nevada desert

Actually that is how Las Vegas looked early on. And even now in some of the swimming pools.

[nickw252]

Big Forest Fire viewed from about 15 miles away:



Restored Ghost Town, all buildings are original

[JerrySanders]

I grew up in Sparks nevada at the edge of the city of sparks... where my backyard was DIRECTLY the boundary up into the east hills... onto NOTHINGNESS. Absolute beauty seemingly endless. If in year 2000 I were to step out of the back door of my house, ((which by the way had a STARK and sharp view of downtown reno directly in the foreground)), I could literally climb up the rear mountain and walk a 600 mile line and not see a soul or a city. I never saw Arizona until this year, and I find it equally beautiful, but there will likely never be a place that compares to Nevada for its sheer endlessness, and a beauty of variable weather/seasons. Arizona is much hotter than most of Nevada, but Arizona as aformentioned, gets more evenly distributed rainfall season-wise which allows AZ to have more greenery even though NV winters are moister and snowier (on a videly variable average) than AZ due to its more northern position. Still, the terrestrial composition of NV is Much alike AZ and even into Mexico the mountain-valley landscape appears somewhat homogenous... if you mind out the giant gorgeous cacti that become more and more frequent as you dive south. Nevada is home to some of the coldest places of the north american continent via winter nighttime radiational cooling.

[Clarks]

I always take great pleasure in climbing out of Palomino Valley just north of Sparks, to the ridge on the old Monte Cristo Ranch, and the huge blue expanse of Pyramid Lake appears far below, looking completely out of place, but there it is, and beyond it you know is the emptiest land in the lower 48


http://rlv.zcache.com/pyramid_lake_n...43trma_400.jpg

[jaada]

I have lived in both places and northern nevadas desert is much better. I dont like cactus so that dont appeal to me. but the desert around carson city and gardnerville is so beautiful and smells so great when it rains it cant be beat, and the weather is so much nicer up there. Southern Az is way tooo hot! northern nevada is much nicer.