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Great Basin National Park
Approximately 5 miles west of Baker on SR 488 near the Nevada-Utah border, the 77,100-acre Great Basin National Park, established in 1986, contains many of the features common to the Great Basin, including impressive mountain peaks, lush meadows, sparkling streams, alpine lakes and a small glacier.
Rising abruptly 7,700 feet from the desert floor, the park exhibits a wide variety of plant and animal habitats that range from the Upper Sonoran life zone with its jackrabbits, sagebrush and cacti to the frigid Arctic-Alpine Tundra life zone at the highest elevations.
In spring and summer many kinds of wildflowers bloom on the mountain slopes. Pine, spruce, fir and mountain mahogany make up the forests, and wildlife includes mule deer, mountain lions, coyotes, porcupines and golden eagles. Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, once locally extinct, were reintroduced to this area in 1971.
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