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The National Park Service published this very useful guide: National Historic Trails – Auto Tour Route Interpretive Guide – Across Nevada. This guide shows how to travel the Emigrant Trails in Nevada, including the Applegate – Lassen Trail and Nobles Route in the Black Rock Desert, beginning on Page 77. Although printed guide books are…
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YOU can become an OHV Preservation Ambassador! Once you have registered, you can take a toodle to your favorite desert places and provide photos and feedback about road quality, damage, or other notable disturbances to Nevada cultural sites. To find out more, please visit the Nevadans for Cultural Preservation OHV Preservation Ambassador website, or watch…
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Stewards of the Black Rock Desert participates in this program to inventory and document historic places in and near the Black Rock Desert. To learn more, please visit The Nevada Site Stewardship Program website.

Come and find the Stewards of the Black Rock Desert at Reno Earth Day! We will be located near the Rose Garden along Cowan Drive, on the left side as you are headed northwest. https://maps.app.goo.gl/PQC7Kmvt56XtyC9b7 Reno Earth Day will be celebrated at Idlewild Park on Saturday, April 19th, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM.…
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The weather was perfect for this event! Eight volunteers participated to repair the Big Medicine teepee and perform maintenance to other installations along the Road. We re-used the poles and replaced one, fastened the top of the teepee securely, added missing skulls, and replaced the horizontal branches.

When: 8 AM, this coming Saturday, March 29, 2025. Where: at Guru Road, mile marker 2, Rte. 34 north of Gerlach, NV. What: We will work mostly on the Big Medicine Teepee, but also pull weeds and assess other parts of the road for future projects. Who: YOU! You can RSVP to metric@blackrockstewards.org. We will…
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We will have an accounting for all of the volunteer effort forthcoming.

On October 20, 2024, Stewards of the Black Rock Desert launched our first direct service project — the Guru Road Restoration Project. This effort is supported in part by a grant from Travel Nevada administered through the Friends of Black Rock High Rock. A total of 12 volunteers worked to remove painted rocks, recover original…
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In December 2032, Erin & I went on a trip to find the path John C. Fremont took through the San Emdio desert to get to Pyramid Lake. I created a form to fill out to gather data along the way. Although this form does not conform to BLM data collection standards, it can serve…
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