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Start at 1. Lehman Caves Visitor Center

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Great Basin Wheeler Peak Scenic Drive, Nevada

Twelve miles up a mountain island, from Lehman Caves to the bristlecone trailhead at nearly ten thousand feet. A rancher's cave, a gold-rush ditch, a peak with four names, Nevada's only glacier and the trees that outlived empires.

22 min of audio · 13 miles · Read the transcript

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    1. Start in the right placeThis tour begins at Lehman Caves Visitor Center. Start while parked; the first story plays when you arrive.
    2. Let's hear itSelect this phone as the car's Bluetooth audio source and set a comfortable volume. Download the tour while you still have signal.
    3. Stories meet you thereYour phone's location starts each story automatically. Music flows straight into the narration. Keep this page open; it keeps the screen awake for GPS.
    4. You're ready to exploreStart at the Lehman Caves Visitor Center (no entrance fee) and press Start; download the tour first, since mobile signal can't be counted on here. The tour climbs the 12-mile Wheeler Peak Scenic Drive to the Bristlecone Trailhead. Above Upper Lehman Creek Campground (mile 3) the road is generally open only June through October and closes with snow (in November 2026 it was closed at Osceola Ditch, mile 4.5; check nps.gov/grba conditions). No vehicles over 24 feet beyond mile 3.

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    Facts from Great Basin National Park (NPS) history, nature, trail and place pages and the NPS Historic Resource Study (Unrau, Basin and Range, 1990); Doso Doyabi naming from the Associated Press (2019). Music: Brahms, Symphony No. 4, II. Andante moderato, Musopen Symphony (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons). Narration is AI-generated. Not an official National Park Service product.