I got my private license out of Las Vegas 10 years ago and had a blast flying the C-152 to a 1200' dirt runway that sat on top of a high bluff overlooking the mouth of the grand canyon where the Colorado River dumped into Lake Mead (above Pearce Ferry). I don't remember what it was called, or if it's still there, but if so, the view was beautiful. The north end of the runway ended about 20' short of the 3-400' cliff so you could do carrier landings to the south, or do approaches to the north keeping the wheels off and shooting off the cliff--in a -152 it felt like the last scene of Thelma and Louise only in a volkswagon bug. On the way back to 'Vegas do a couple of laps over the Hoover Dam, fly over the valley of fire or land at Echo Bay and get a ride down to the dock for a burger.
Mike