Overview

Note: With the lake level so low, this is no longer a place to go birding. The views remain scenic, but not for birds.

Las Vegas Wash Scenic Overlook and Picnic Area sits on a flat-topped bluff overlooking Las Vegas Bay. The landscape is sparsely vegetated with stunted creosote bush, white bursage, and few other shrubs, and the lakeshore is mud or grown up in saltcedar, depending on water levels.

When the lake level was up, water lapped at the edge of the picnic area, but now the picnic area provides an elevated position for looking down on Las Vegas Wash, and the lake is a speck of blue in the far distance.

Link to map.