Valley of Fire State Park Roadways
Lost City Museum, NV

The National Park Service first built the museum as artifacts were being excavated from Pueblo Grande de Nevada. Lost City Museum is on a little knoll just south of Overton. This area was once an outpost of the Anasazi, or "Ancient Ones." These Anasazi Indian sites were in danger of being submerged in the waters of Lake Mead, so they were being excavated quickly. Lost City Museum has one of the most complete collections of artifacts of the early Pueblo Indians in the Southwest. The exhibit begins with the mammoth hunters from the Desert culture 10,000 years ago. It then continues through successive phases of Pueblo culture. The exhibit then continues with the Paiute people who still live in this area up through the history of Mormon farmers who were the first to migrate from the east. The museum also sells examples of Native American workmanship and houses a reproduction of a small Pueblo residence cluster constructed during the 1930s. It is as exact a replica as governmental hands can build.