The lights along the Las Vegas Strip aren't the only illuminating things in town.
  Travel 50 miles north of the city to Valley of Fire State Park and you'll see rocks that glow with an unusually bright crimson color. The area offers some of the Southwest's most amazing scenery with vivid colors splashed on some of the oldest natural rock formations known to mankind.
  With its official opening in 1935, Valley of Fire is considered Nevada's oldest state park. The park, which covers an area of almost 36,000 acres, gets its name from its fiery red sandstone. The formations are the result of fossilized sandstone and sand dunes that formed more than 150 million years ago by a shift in the Earth's crust, faulting and wind and water erosion.
  Now the state park is primarily a tourist destination with 300,000 visitors per year. Movie stars have also been known to visit this popular park. Because of its stunning scenery, movies such as "Transformers," "10,000 B.C." and "Planet of the Apes" include scenes filmed at the Valley of Fire.