Our View To 7 Magic Mountains

Just most 30 minutes from the hustle as well as bustle of the Las Vegas strip, nosotros explored a whimsical fine art installation inwards the middle of the Nevada desert called Seven Magic Mountains. If y'all are headed to Vegas soon, live certain to add together this to your itinerary! Thanks to our friends at Toyota for ever inspiring us to larn to novel places!

You know how y'all discovery yourself seeing the same house over as well as over 1 time to a greater extent than on Instagram that y'all lastly create upward one's heed to encounter what all of the fuss is about? Well, for us, that was Seven Magic Mountains!

I volition live the kickoff to acknowledge that I belike pass agency besides much fourth dimension on Instagram. Looking through move hashtags to larn inspired as well as temporarily fulfill my demand for wanderlust when I am stuck inwards the office, I oft discovery patterns or fifty-fifty encounter the same places beingness shared over as well as over again. When I encounter a house that strikes my attending or inspires me, I similar to add together these Instagram posts inwards my saved folder.

I cannot say y'all how many times I went as well as saved a photograph of someone at Seven Magic Mountains!

After seeing most belike 50 selfies as well as adorable fashionista grams all taken at the same spot, I lastly decided to hold off into this gorgeous, desert fine art installation. Located simply 30 minutes exterior of Las Vegas, I knew it would live something nosotros could easily cheque out during our adjacent route trip exam driving the Toyota Prius Four Touring from Arizona out to Nevada, as well as over our wintertime pause hiatus, nosotros did simply that!
For my thirtieth birthday as well as Christmas, Adam as well as I took fourth dimension off as well as got out of the trouble solid as well as went on a desert route trip out to Las Vegas to explore around the area. We were happy to live able to part the trip amongst my mom every bit good since it had been most x years since nosotros got to pass Christmas amongst her!

The induce from Phoenix to Las Vegas is a straightforward route trip amongst really minimal demand to brand pit stops. Test driving the Toyota Prius Four Touring, nosotros could receive got easily made it the entire agency on simply 1 tank of gas since nosotros were getting around 199 miles to the gallon! With minimal traffic, it took us simply nether 5 hours to larn from our house inwards Phoenix to larn to our hotel on the southern component subdivision of the Las Vegas strip.

Visiting Seven Magic Mountains was a full breeze for us 1 time nosotros establish a parking spot. I had non anticipated how busy it would be, but every bit it turns out, at that spot are quite a few other people who receive got heard of the fine art installation who wanted to see as well as accept pictures there. There is a designated parking lot simply off the primary road, as well as at that spot was fifty-fifty a street vendor selling H2O as well as snacks from a nutrient truck. Keep inwards mind, this is a temporary fine art installation inwards the middle of the Nevada desert as well as hence y'all tin imagine that at that spot are a set out of alert signs most dehydration as well as rattlesnakes, every bit good every bit courtesy signs bespeak guests to non wander off of the primary walkways.

A quick walk from the parking lot, y'all volition discovery this Ugo Rondinone fine art installation that was named Seven Magic Mountains. Comprised of 33 boulders, this large scale artwork slice took 5 years to consummate from start to finish. Moving 1 boulder at a time, to stack these boulders on top of 1 another, each large boulder weighs over 40,000 pounds. It took an entire squad of engineers, producers, consultants, as well as heavy lifters to convey this artwork to life inwards the middle of the desert. It is 1 of the largest, land-based fine art installations completed inwards over xl years.

Ugo Rondinone is a Swiss-born creative somebody improve known around the the world for his world artwork, including his "Human Nature" installation that resided inwards New York City inwards Rockafeller Center through 2013.

If y'all are headed to Las Vegas or looking for a route trip thought coming from Phoenix, nosotros highly recommend making your agency out to the strip to cheque out this colorful, whimsical world fine art installation.