25 miles past the South Rims Visitor Center. Decent drive if you dont get stuck behind slow moving vehicles! Plenty of side of the road stops for additional viewing! Nice views and people!

Desert View Trail is a 0.5 mile (0.8k) round-trip, accessible trail located on Hwy-158, Deer Creek Road, in the Mount Charleston area, a bit more than an hour north of The Strip. The trail leads to two different overlooks with views of the desert to the north and east and a number of interpretive signs. In the early days of the Cold War, people came to these overlooks to witness atmospheric atomic bomb tests at the Nevada Test Site. Today, one can sometimes witness US Air Force training over the Nellis Bombing Range and, looking north, just beyond the mountains in the distance is the not so secret Area 51.