Harrah's Convenience Store RV Parking, Laughlin NV
Dawn at Strayhorse Campground, March 29, 2008
Sorry to say I didn't get a picture the nights I was here.
Harrah's Casino in Laughlin NV offers overnight RV parking in the lot south of their convenience store across the highway from the casino.
The Harrah's Laughlin website has this to say
RV Parking:
We offer on-site RV parking for vehicles 7500 lbs or less. For RV's that don't qualify for on-site parking we offer parking across the street at the C-Store. I'm pleased to inform you that we offer transpiration to/from the C-Store and Casino, simply request transportation at the C-Store or Bell Desk. If you would like to sleep in your RV instead of the hotel please inform the C-Store team member that you would like to park in the South end of the lot. If you would like to simply park the RV and sleep else where inform the team member that you would like to park in the gated area of the North lot.
Recreation /Oversized trucks with boat trailers:
To park your vehicle and trailer, you would need to park them across the street adjacent to our Convenience Store. I'm pleased to inform you that we do offer transportation to/from our hotel and our Convenience store. Just let the clerk in the Convenience Store know you require transportation to the Casino and when in the Casino, please let the Bell Desk rep know you require transportation to the Convenience Store. Please note: There is a $5/day fee if sleeping in unit (waived for Diamond and Seven Star members).
Harrah's Convenience Store RV Parking, Laughlin NV
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Nights I've camped here
Wind on the Gangplank
There was almost no soil in that part of the range - just twelve miles' breadth of rough pink rock. "As you go from Chicago west, soil diminishes in thickness and fertility, and when you get to the gangplank and up here on top of the Laramie Range there is virtually none," Love said. "It's had ten million years to develop, and there's none. Why? Wind - that's why. The wind blows away everything smaller than gravel."
Standing in that wind was like standing in river rapids. It was a wind embellished with gusts, but, over all, it was primordially steady: a consistent southwest wind, which had been blowing that way not just through human history but in every age since the creation of the mountains - a record written clearly in wind - scored rock. Trees were widely scattered up there and, where they existed, appeared to be rooted in the rock itself. Their crowns looked like umbrellas that had been turned inside out and were streaming off the trunks downwind. "Wind erosion has tremendous significance in this part of the Rocky Mountain region," Love said, "Even down in Laramie, the trees are tilted. Old-timers used to say that a Wyoming wind gauge was an anvil on a length of chain. When the land was surveyed, the surveyors couldn't keep their tripods steady. They had to work by night or near sunrise. People went insane because of the wind." His mother, in her 1905 journal, said that Old Hanley, passing by the Twin Creek school, would disrupt lessons by making some excuse to step inside and light his pipe. She also described a man who was evidently losing to the wind his struggle to build a cabin: