FAVORITE DOG HIKES IN AND AROUND LAS VEGAS
Wynne Benti & Megan Lawlor

105 hikes, parks & walks!
Share the barking wild beauty that is Las Vegas with your best friend. With 105 hikes, walks and dog-friendly parks, FAVORITE DOG HIKES IN AND AROUND LAS VEGAS provides a years worth or more of hiking fun for the entire family!

Just beyond the edge of Summerlin listen to the rain cascade down the high cliffs of Red Rock National Conservation Area after an afternoon thunderstorm.

Walk a soft easy trail through shady groves of Arizona ash, across cool springfed streams on a ranch that once belonged to Howard Hughes.

Watch big horn sheep on sandstone cliffs deep within hidden canyons. Visit water-filled catch basins built during the Great Depression by the Civilian Conservation Corps

Born Free and Equal
Ansel Adams

Climbing Mt. Whitney
Peter Croft, Glen Dawson

Close Ups of the High Sierra
Norman Clyde

Death Valley to Yosemite: Frontier Mining Camps and Ghost Towns
L. Burr Belden & Mary DeDecker

Desert Summits
Andy Zdon

Favorite Dog Hikes In and Around Las Vegas
Wynne Benti & Megan Lawlor

Favorite Dog Hikes In and Around Los Angeles
Wynne Benti

Grand Canyon Treks
Harvey Butchart

High and Wild: Essays and Photographs on Wilderness Adventure
Galen Rowell

Mojave Desert Trails
Florine Lawlor

Out From Las Vegas
Florine Lawlor

The Secret Sierra: The Alpine World Above the Trees
David Gilligan

Robert Clunie: Plein Air Painter
of the Sierra
Richard Coons

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Look for the fossils of ammonites, coral, ferns and small sea creatures left by ancient seas high atop Potosi Mountain

Stand of the edge of magnificent agave roasting pits left by the ancient ancestors of the Southern Paiute

Walk the trails made by Nevada's first miners to our oldest mines

Wander sandy washes to the edge of Lake Mead the skeletons of sunken boats have been exposed by receding waters

Visit St. Thomas, abandoned then flooded in the 1930s by Lake Mead

Walk the now-forgotten Arrowhead Trail, the first all-weather automobile route from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles

About the Authors
Wynne Benti, Favorite Dog Hikes In and Around Los Angeles, Climbing Mt. Whitney worked at NBC and FOX for nearly two decades. In 1995, she authored Favorite Dog Hikes in and Around Los Angeles and founded the K9 Committee based in Los Angeles.For thirty years her hiking companions have been five dogs, four of which were adopted from shelters or rescued. Benti has climbed more than 400 desert peaks, many with her dogs. She has hiked in Las Vegas and Nevada for more than twenty hiking Nevada's highest peak, Boundary, as well as the highest in Clark County, Charleston Peak, Mummy and Hayford. Benti conducts dog hiking clinics at REI and has been a guest speaker at numerous animal shelters.

Las Vegas native, Megan Lawlor, has been hiking Las Vegas with her dogs since she was a child. Lawlor and her family have a long history in Las Vegas, that includes pioneering railroad men and gold miners. She hiked Red Rock when the scenic loop was a remote dirt road miles from town. She is one of the few Las Vegans who can say that a gila monster walked into their living room! Daughter-in-law to Las Vegas’ beloved author and retired Las Vegas Sun/Review Journal columnist, Florine Lawlor, who wrote the enduring series Out From Las Vegas: Adventures A Day Away, Megan loves her town and knows Las Vegas for the great outdoor opportunities that abound here. (Above: Rosy on First Creek at sunset by Wynne Benti)

ISBN 1-89334-10-3 $15.95 288 pages
Photography by Wynne Benti and Megan Lawlor