Eldorado Canyon is located about three miles southeast of Dayton, Nevada in the Pine Nut Mountains.
It is a desert canyon with a meandering creek, willow trees, cottonwoods, sagebrush, and a wide variety of high desert vegetation. It is walled on both sides by rocky slopes, punctuated with unusual formations and weird shaped volcanic mud flows. Deer, wild horses, coyotes, cougars, and many varieties of small wild animals and birds call the canyon home. Smoke drifts up from the wood stove at our cozy camp in Eldorado Canyon. Early spring in Nevada is a time of unsettled weather conditions.