We talked about this on our January drive, so I figured I'd post about it to see what kind of interest there is to do it. I figured we could stay a couple days in either May or September and drive Red Rock Canyon and Valley of Fire outside of Vegas.
Red Rock Canyon is located about 17 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip and features a one-way 13-mile scenic drive (26 miles up and back).
Valley of Fire State Park is located 55 miles northeast of Las Vegas via Interstate 15 and on exit 75. It was voted as the Best Park/Nature Area and the Best Scenic Drive in Southern Nevada by the reader's of the Nevada Magazine.
We did these drives for S2KDays '05 and it was really cool.
Jen was looking at hotel room rates and they are very reasonable in mid May. Her original thought was to go Sunday-Wednesday for the cheaper rates, but I don't know how people feel about taking off from work. I thought maybe going Saturday-Tuesday would be better for those that can't ake off as much time. I think the Friday-Sunday thing is out of the question unless people want to deal with 20 hours of sitting in traffic.
We could drive there Saturday and meet up in the early afternoon to drive Red Rock Canyon since it is close. Check in after the drive, take a nap (or play craps), eat dinner (or play craps), and then play craps.
Sunday, we would get together early and eat some breakfast, drive Valley of Fire, and come back, eat and play some craps. Drive home Monday morning in no traffic after eating breakfast and playing craps.
Anyone interested??