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Golden Eagle - Elko's Wintering Eagles

Elko’s Wintering Eagles

Golden eagles and Bald eagles spend winters in Elko County. January is a great time to take a drive and watch for raptors. Winter brings birds of prey from more northern areas such as Idaho to our region where the winters are not as severe.  Bald eagles are more typically […]

34th Annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

34th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, January 29-February 3, 2018 “Basques & Buckaroos: Herding Cultures of Basin, Range and Beyond.”  The Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering started 33 years ago as a place where Western ranchers and cowboys could gather to share poems about their lives working cattle. From the beginning, it […]

Elko County Painted Kindness Rocks

Elko County Rocks!

Have you found a painted/decorated rock and not known what it is? Or maybe you have and posted that you found it and re-hid it to bring joy to someone else. There’s a nationwide craze going on in case you haven’t heard of it, or seen it, but people are […]