Get your Nevada-ness on! 7 facts about the Silver State
New Delhi: Dec 11.Got fishing, hiking, or hot spring hunting on the mind? More than 80 per cent of Nevada is public land — the highest percentage among all states of the USA, which means this land is literally your land! Here are some fun facts about Nevada that you can explore some more when you head out to the Silver State! Nevadans are friendly. Just make sure you pronounce Nevada right. It's 'Neh-VAD-uh', not 'Neh-VAH-duh'. We suggest you practice saying that while getting to know the Silver State some more!
Nevada has more ghost towns than 'living' towns Boasting around 100 locales with zip codes to 600+ ghost towns, Nevada has more historic mining camps and bygone boomtowns than actual populated cities and towns. If that's not reason enough to grab your atlas, drop a gear and disappear (Nevada for off-roading), we're not sure what is.
Burning Man's Black Rock City is the largest temporary city in the world With more than 70,000 partygoers in attendance each August – most only for about a week — Burning Man's Black Rock City becomes not only the world's largest temporary city, but also the sixth-largest urban environment in Nevada. Comprising elaborate theme camps, villages, art installations and individual camps, Black Rock City is so large that it builds its own post office, DMV and complete medical team. When the celebration concludes, the city is disass landscape is restored to its natural Black Rock Desert state.
The state of Nevada is the most mountainous in the Lower 48 More than 300 individual mountain ranges span the Silver State. Nevada claims 42 named summits over 11,000 feet, including eight of the nation's ultra-prominent peaks, which means they rise a minimum of 4,900 feet up from their surrounding valleys. The highest point in Nevada is Boundary Peak at 13,140', while the lowest point is 479' on the mighty Colorado River.
Turquoise, garnet, and black fire opal galore means Nevada is a rockhounder's paradise Nevada is the country's second-largest turquoise producer, tailing Arizona to the south, and has more turquoise mines than any other state. Sink your pick into 120 mines around the state or try your luck at rockhounding black fire opal — the official state gemstone — and natural garnets, originally mistaken as rubies in the northeast.
Nevada is one of the quietest places in the US Home to some of the last remaining true dark skies in the country, expect to uncover the holy grail of stargazing at places like Tonopah Star Park, Great Basin National Park and Massacre Rim. Far beyond the reach of light pollution and sound, these places not only serve up thousands of stars, galaxies, and planets right to your naked eye — some visible nowhere else on earth — but also draw a variety of wildlife that thrive in this exceptionally dark and quiet nocturnal environment.
Nevada is home to nearly 50% of the nation's wild horse herds What's more freeing than watching a wild horse charge through the Nevada landscape, realizing they're not fenced in? An icon not only to Nevada but also the entire American West. More than 60,000 wild mustangs and burros roam the Silver State — more than half the entire population of wild horses in the US. 
