Lamoille Canyon Road

A twelve-mile dead-end climb into a glacier-carved gorge of the Ruby Mountains, Nevada's answer to Yosemite Valley.

Lamoille Canyon Road runs about twelve miles from the valley near Lamoille up into the largest glacial canyon of the Ruby Mountains in north-eastern Nevada, ending at the Road's End trailhead around 8,800 feet. The paved road climbs through a U-shaped gorge of granite walls, hanging valleys, waterfalls and avalanche chutes beneath 11,387-foot Ruby Dome, scenery that has earned the Rubies the nickname 'Nevada's Yosemite' or 'Nevada's Alps'. It is a National Forest Scenic Byway, a there-and-back drive rather than a through route, generally open May to October. Mind the abrupt seasonal closure once snow arrives, rockfall and the occasional bighorn sheep on the road, and the long, exposed run with no services beyond the canyon mouth.