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This page should be a dab. There are more than 30 parks and canyons in the U.S. named Red Rock Canyon:
The geology section is at odds with what I have learned about the area. It relies heavily on an unreputable source, sunsetcities.com, which in turn appears at first glance to have been written by someone technically challenged, literacy challenged, and plagiarism challenged.
Aspects that I question:
I would like to make corrections, but not without posting this message here first. The History page shows that some people have made "fixes" to the Geology section as recently as last year, so I don't want to appear to be vandalizing if there's going to be some debate. Kkken ( talk) 17:29, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Added 05/16/2011 ny HWS: I'll add that it is definitely fubar. The "deep basin" for the Paleozoics is extremely misleading; the section is deep because of coeval subsidence, but most all were deposited in shallow water (google "Bonanza King Formation" and stromatolites). The bizarre bit about the red color is way out of place, and will make readers think the red color of the Aztec Sandstones originated millions of years before they were deposited. The author should get "Geologic Tours in the Las Vegas Area (expanded editions)" by Tingley et al. (2001). This highly misinformative section has propagated all over the web. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.180.189.143 ( talk) 17:26, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
At the Visitors' Center, there's now a male tortoise born in August of 1985 called Mikey. Alright, fine, I donated him to Red Rock after Mojave Max died. I have the slip of paper near me that gives me great thanks for the donation. I owned him from August of 1985 to July of 2009. He was my pet, but I became unable to care for him properly so I decided it would be best to donate him to a place where he'd be cared for for the rest of his life. Sierraoffline444 ( talk) 20:42, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
"September 6, 2006 yet another fire was started by lightning in the loop near the visitor's center and burned around 1,500 acres (610 ha)."
Just stating the REAL facts, as I was there the moment this fire was started. A construction worker on a steamroller was smoking a cigarette while steamrolling newly-laid pavement at the intersection of the Loop Exit and 159. He tossed his cigarette out to the brush and over about 15 minutes, the fire started with smoke first then flames. He was neither held accountable nor investigated as the idiot who started this. It doesn't surprise in the course of Nevada politics that the cause was dishonestly blamed on lightning, though it was a CRYSTAL CLEAR morning. Must've been freak lightning, eh? Fictional Science Sextuple Feature! 04:14, 16 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by MagentaTimCurryElbowSex ( talk • contribs)
Removed dead link. Someone inaccurately said a road is a 4x4 road, however regular cars can drive on it for a short distance no problem, as well as other off road vehicles beyond that point. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adam00 ( talk • contribs) 23:38, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
The article currently has details on over 20 hikes listed, which I don't think is appropriate (per WP:NOTTRAVEL). Does anyone have any thought as to which hikes are most notable and deserve special mention? Stonkaments ( talk) 05:15, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
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