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Maggie
Summit
Elko County, Nevada
The Maggie Summit Road goes from near Mountain City to the Bull Run Reservoir and then down into the vast Owyhee Desert. Every mile of this road is breathtaking. In the late spring, the greenery will amaze you. Ranches on the lower end are kept lush by Trail Creek, which flows off the Bull Run Mountains into the South Fork Owyhee River past Mountain City.
This road is well worth a sightseeing drive. It begins about four miles south of Mountain City on highway 225 and goes southwest through the Bull Runs. If you're ambitious, a hike to the privately-owned Bull Run Reservoir is rumored to be quite rewarding. We weren't ambitious enough to make the trek, but have read that the reservoir, owned by the massive IL Ranch, contains large rainbow trout. IL Ranch has worked with the Nevada DWR to allow fishermen into the area under strict conditions--one of them being no motor vehicle travel.
View west toward
the Independence Mountains from Maggie Summit trail.
The Bull Run Mountains.
Wild mint in the foreground.
Jim Drysdale's
angle on the Independence Mountains
Elko, Nevada; The Crown Jewel of the Great Basin.
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