Grant Range Wilderness

Raptors flock to this area, which falls away from 11,298-foot Troy Peak to a few firs and bristlecone pines and on down to dryland pinion-juniper with a sagebrush understory. Few people ever explore this region of central Nevada, although it is relatively easy to get to the high country. Hikers won't find any maintained trails, just abandoned four-wheel-drive tracks that extend into the area from the east and west. Water is virtually impossible to find, except when snow melts and runs off from higher elevations. Only a dirt road separates this land from the Quinn Canyon Wilderness to the south. The Wilderness is in Nevada, is managed by the Forest Service, and was designated in 1989.