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Malpais Spring Road tops out on a plateau at about 4600 feet elevation, so I park the bicycle and start looking for a campsite

6254-malpais-spring-road.jpg The pale buckwheat flowers look pinker in the blush of sunset near Malpais Spring, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI go for a short walk to check out the area at the top of Malpais Spring Road; this will be home for a night or twoThe pale buckwheat flowers look pinker in the blush of sunset near Malpais Spring, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI go for a short walk to check out the area at the top of Malpais Spring Road; this will be home for a night or twoThe pale buckwheat flowers look pinker in the blush of sunset near Malpais Spring, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI go for a short walk to check out the area at the top of Malpais Spring Road; this will be home for a night or twoThe pale buckwheat flowers look pinker in the blush of sunset near Malpais Spring, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI go for a short walk to check out the area at the top of Malpais Spring Road; this will be home for a night or twoThe pale buckwheat flowers look pinker in the blush of sunset near Malpais Spring, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsI go for a short walk to check out the area at the top of Malpais Spring Road; this will be home for a night or two

Nice view of the town of Searchlight, Nevada from here. At this point, the meagre road turns northeast and continues back down to the corral on Walking Box Ranch Road that I passed a while ago.