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The Best of the Wild West🌵🏜️🦂
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✨Unique places to stay✨
Ghost towns👻🌵
National Parks🏃⛰️
The best places to take the coolest photos 📸🌠
✨Unique places to stay✨
These places are not your ordinary boring hotels or motels. Add a little sparkle to your trip✨
I stayed here back in March of 2022 and I had a wonderful experience. The staff was super friendly. They have tiny homes, teepees and wagons from the 1800s. They are cheaper off season during the winter and the price goes up March 1st when their seas...
Zion Wildflower Resort - Glamping Zion National Park
If you're staying in Nevada and are fascinated with aliens, this is the place for you. This motel is located in the town of Rachel, Nevada, which where Area 51 is located. My parents stayed here last year and the staff was amazing and very hospitable...
Little A'Le'Inn
Nestled along the historic Route 66 in Tucumcari, NM, our unique Big Art sculpture park and glamping destination offers an immersive art experience in the heart of nature. The site features fourteen large-scale sculptures crafted by internationally r...
Art City Tucumcari - Hipcamp in Tucumcari, New Mexico
April 2019. A new vision for America's Scariest Motel was born. Vijay Mehar, with lots of quality experience in the hotel industry, thought of a new venture. A venture of his own that would make a difference! The motel offers guests a new, unforgetta...
THE CLOWN MOTEL, TONOPAH, NEVADA, USA.
Grand Canyon Inn on the legendary Route 66 offers 48 quite ordinary motel rooms.
What makes it interesting is the 49th room, which is more than 70 metres underground, deep in a 65-million-year-old cavern!
This unique underground hotel suite can ac...
Grand Canyon Caverns & Inn
If you love Vintage, this is the place for you! This trailer court on Highway 80 invites you to spend the night in an authentic 1950s travel trailer. 11 charming vintage trailers, all very different and all original, are ready to welcome to you.
Vo...
The Shady Dell
Part of the Navajo Tribal Lands, mythical Monument Valley is everything you would expect of the Far West.
FireTree Bed & Breakfast offers a stay in a hogan, or traditional Navajo dwelling. FireTree's hogans are built in the traditional Navajo wa...
Monument Valley's Firetree Bed and Breakfast - Your Hogan Experience in Monument Valley!
Ghost towns👻🌵
During your Vacation, no matter where you are out west, you gotta visit a Ghost Town.
Grafton, is one of the most famous ghost towns in Utah. Located just outside of Zion National Park, you probably know Grafton already, even if you don’t realize it. It tops our list of 10 famous Utah ghost towns because it got some major screen time ...
Grafton
DEEP IN THE UTAH DESERT, about 125 miles from Salt Lake City, Nine Mile Canyon is filled with tens of thousands of petroglyphs and pictographs, some over a thousand years old. The earliest images have been traced to the ancient native peoples known a...
Nine Mile Canyon - Bureau of Land Management
FOUNDED IN 1875 AS A silver mining town, Frisco earned a reputation for being one of the wildest towns in the western frontier. The town was often labeled, “Dodge City, Tombstone, Sodom, and Gomorrah all rolled into one.”
At its peak, the town had a...
Frisco
Located in Northern Nevada, With mountains on three sides, ensconcing multiple rivers and creeks that nourish verdant farms and ranch lands, Paradise Valley is aptly named. It’s also a classic example of what Nevadans call a “living ghost town,” as a...
Paradise Valley
In 1861, a young Missourian named Samuel Langhorne Clemens tagged along with his older brother to Nevada Territory. It was here that Clemens would discover his distaste of office work, become “allergic” to shovels and gold mining, adopt the pen name ...
Mark Twain once tried his luck as a prospector in Unionville, Nevada
Many places claim “firsts.” Well, the tiny, mega-remote “living ghost town” of Jarbidge claims two major “lasts.” Jarbidge prides itself on being the the site of the last legitimate gold rush in the American West, after the shiny stuff was discovered...
Jarbidge
The history of Bodie is vibrant and colorful and the town's legacy as a Wild West icon is everlasting. With a diverse population numbering close to 10,000 at the town's peak in 1880, industrious miners and successful businessman rubbed shoulders with...
Bodie State Historic Park - California State Parks
Taos Pueblo is the only living Native American community designated both a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and a National Historic Landmark. The multi-storied adobe buildings have been continuously inhabited for over 1000 years.
Taos Pueblo
Dunton Hot Springs is an authentic ghost town abandoned by gold miners in 1918.
Today the perfectly restored, exquisitely furnished, hand-hewn log cabins form a luxurious (but relaxed) guest resort that is one of a kind.
Dunton Hot Springs offers ...
Dunton
National Parks🏃⛰️
Some of the best National Parks out West.
This place is a must see! Located in New Mexico, this park has some of the whitest sands in the world and offers beautiful sunsets. I love this place!
White Sands National Park
Coral Pink Sand dunes is a must see on your vacation. It's not a National Park, but is definitely a place you don't want to miss. Venture onto a shifting sea of red sand. Changed by winds, these mountains and hills of sand can move as much as 50 feet...
Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park
I picked this National Park as a go to, because of the views and trail options for visitors of all hiking skill level. During your stay, the Wildflower Resort Inn is only minutes away from this park. They also have a gift shop with lots of souvenirs ...
Zion National Park
I visited Valley of Fire state Park in March of 2022 and I had a blast. My parents and I hiked, climbed rocks and took lots of photos. This park is so beautiful with rocks painted in different shades of red. I highly recommend this park!
Valley of Fire State Park
The Grand Canyon is the place to go on your Journey out West. I've personally never been there, but my parents and other family members have been there and the views are amazing as well as the park itself. There's lots of trails to choose from and th...
Grand Canyon National Park
High ancient sea ledges, deep rocky canyons, flowering cactus, and desert wildlife—treasures above the ground in the Chihuahuan Desert. Hidden beneath the surface are more than 119 caves—formed when sulfuric acid dissolved limestone leaving behind ca...
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Joshua Tree National Park offers lots to do. You can go camping, hiking, sightseeing, stargazing and more! This National Park is located in Eastern California. I highly recommend this place for the whole family!
Joshua Tree National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
If you're in Eastern Nevada close to Utah, you gotta check out this National Park. This park offers picturesque views and a day full of outdoor fun! Among its main highlights are the spectacular Lehman Caves, sparkling Stella Lake and ginormous Lexin...
Great Basin National Park
Discover a landscape of contrasting colors, land forms, and textures unlike any other. The park has over 2,000 natural stone arches, hundreds of soaring pinnacles, massive rock fins, and giant balanced rocks. This red-rock wonderland will amaze you w...
Arches National Park
The best places to take the coolest photos 📸🌠
Here is a list of some awesome places that you'll have to get a family picture at!
The Extra terrestrial highway is located in Rachel, Nevada, and is the perfect place to take a picture in front of their cool looking sign 👽
Extraterrestrial Highway - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (2024)
In the town of Rachel, Nevada, You have to go up to the Area 51 entrance and get a picture. It's on the bucket list of so many people & you'll be glad you got the experience!
Area 51 - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (2024)
I added this place to the list because of how neat and unique it is. If you love cars and art, this place is a great place to visit and take photos. It's an Outdoor Art Gallery created by longtime Goldfield resident Mark Rippie, whose vision was to b...
International Car Forest of the Last Church | Open Air Gallery | Nevada Art
If you're staying in the Las Vegas, Nevada area, you have to stop here and check out this amazing art installation. Standing more than 30 feet in height, the seven huge sculptures consist of unwieldy, fluorescently-painted boulders stacked atop of on...
Seven Magic Mountains
If you are in New Mexico, you have to stop in the town of Roswell. In this unique town, there are several photo-op alien displays at several locations around town. There's even the a museum called The International UFO Museum & Research Center, w...
BEST Places to Take Photos with Aliens in Roswell, New Mexico