Lakeside RV Park

If the Lakeside RV Park slot machines have tickled your fancy, the campground's local town of Pahrump is only an hour west of famed and glittering Las Vegas; if it's the Nevada sun you hanker after, an hour in the other direction will take you to the parched landscape and record summer heat of the Death Valley National Park. The park is well placed for other outdoor days out around the Pahrump Valley and Nye County, like guided tours of the local wineries (and then picnics with the best souvenirs), fishing in the creek of the Carpenter Canyon, teeing off at the Mountain Falls Golf Club a short drive away, and scenery spotting around the Spring Mountains rising up from the Pahrump Valley's northeast and east. Wildlife watchers and reservation hikers have the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge to wander, a desert habitat to the east of Death Valley but covering 24,000 acres of spring-fed wetlands, all of fossil water tens of thousands of years old. A topping nearby option for drivers is taking your truck or ATV to the off-road haven of the Amargosa Dunes, five square miles of dips and dunes that top out on a peak of 500 feet: you might/should feel that you're racing around Mars…