Unit 141 takes in the Hot Creek Range, the southern Monitor Range fringe, and the country between Hot Creek Valley and Little Smoky Valley in central Nye County. Elevations run from about 5,500 feet on the valley floors to 9,615 feet on Morey Peak and over 9,400 on Hot Creek Butte. The Hot Creeks are narrower and steeper than the Monitors to the north, with cliffy west-facing escarpments and gentler east slopes. Vegetation grades from sage and bitterbrush in the basins through pinyon-juniper benches, mountain mahogany on the rocky shoulders, and aspen pockets in the wetter canyon heads. Hot Creek itself, fed by hot springs in the upper drainage, runs water year-round and cuts a surprisingly green ribbon through otherwise bone-dry country. The Tybo and Hot Creek mining districts left ghost towns and tailings piles scattered through the lower country. BLM dominates with Humboldt-Toiyabe NF over the high country. US 6 frames the south, Highway 376 runs Big Smoky Valley to the west, and the access roads up Hot Creek Valley are graded gravel. Tonopah is your supply hub south on US 6—gas, the Mizpah Hotel, basic groceries—and Eureka 75 miles north has a smaller setup. Cell service is gone almost everywhere. Mule deer live the aspen-mahogany pockets, pronghorn the open sage flats. The country is genuinely remote and sees very few hunters because everyone drives past it heading to the Toiyabes or Schells. Bring extra fuel, water, and the patience to glass slow—the bucks are here, they just won't show themselves easily.