Great Basin National Park: Nevada’s Forgotten Masterpiece of Peaks, Ancient Trees, and the Darkest Sky in America

I’d been driving east on US-50 through Nevada for two hours without passing a single gas station, restaurant, or town worth more than a paragraph in a guidebook. My Celestron SkyMaster binoculars rode shotgun, ready for the dark skies ahead. The highway stretched ahead like a gray ribbon unspooling across alkali flats, and my phone … Read more