Recreation

Northeastern Nevada is abounding with recreation opportunities for all levels of adventurers. To preserve your safety as well as protect our natural resources, we recommend that you are aware of safety procedures and regulations. Common sense is essential when preparing to travel to those remote areas.

1. Obtain travel information from a Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management office, or other public land agencies. Learn the rules and follow them.
2. Avoid running over young trees, shrubs, and grasses -- damaging or killing them.
3. Stay off soft, wet roads and trails readily torn up by vehicles (particularly during hunting seasons). Repairing the damage is expensive.
4. Travel around meadows, steep hillsides, or streambeds and lakeshores easily scarred by turning wheels.
5. Resist the urge to pioneer a new road or trail or to cut across a switchback.
6. Stay away from animals that are rearing young -- or suffering from food shortage. Stress can sap essential, scarce energy reserves.
7. Obey gate closures and regulatory signs. Vandalism costs all of us.