Florine Lawlor: Out From Las Vegas

Photographer Jackie Buck, Las Vegas Sun outdoor columnist Florine Lawlor and Celeste Lowe at booksigning for first edition of Out From Las Vegas: Adventures A Day Away.

Florine Lawor: The Woman who took Nevada “Out from Las Vegas”

Imagine a stunning blonde billboard model hopping into her Jeep and driving in all directions out from Las Vegas proving that great outdoor adventures could be found just about everywhere off Southern Nevada’s beaten trails.

Today, more than 40 years later Las Vegas-born Florine Lawlor’s book OUT FROM LAS VEGAS: ADVENTURES A DAY AWAY (Spotted Dog Press) still offers any day-tripper the way to the treasures of historic Nevada destinations.
Still writing today, Lawlor was Southern Nevada’s first female outdoor columnist writing “Adventures A Day Away,” for the Las Vegas Sun. For over 40 years, her articles appeared in publications across the southwest from Sunset Magazine to Arizona Highways.

Lawlor, whose grandfather was a Nevada railroad man and whose father worked the abandoned Delamar gold mines, has written one of the most authoritative guides to the Silver State’s back roads and centuries-old history and lore ever published.

A sample of some of the places, with complete descriptions and traveler’s advice, is irresistible: Mashbird’s Lost Mine, Devil’s Throat, Last Chance Ledge, Sawtooth Wright’s Gold Mine, Boulder City Pectolites, and Warshield Canyon—are just a few of the fascinating locations awaiting the willing visitor. It’s all here, from “Old Ivanpah” to the “Salt Mines of the Ancients,” offered in easy-to-read maps that let readers follow trails laid down by the ancient Anasazi, the Shoshone and Paiute, and the mad variety of miners, explorers opportunists and dreamers.

Today’s dreamers can find places where gold, silver, turquoise, opals, quartz, fossils, hot springs and snow dust, and all variety of natural wonders created legends, even directions (and warnings) to the modern “Extraterrestrial Highway,” that rolls past the massive, top-secret military base known mysteriously as “Area 51,” where so many of America’s awesome aerial weapons were developed and tested, and still are. With Lawlor as guide, those seeking new experiences can discover the real treasure, one of America’s last great desert frontiers.

Lawlor still delights new generations of fans in rare standing-room only public appearances that guarantee there’s more to Nevada than can be seen in the neon lights of the fabled Las Vegas strip.

--Wynne Benti

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