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El Mirage Lake is a dry lake bed in the northwestern Victor Valley of the central Mojave Desert, within San Bernardino County, California. The lake is located about 9 miles (14 km) west-northwest of the town of Adelanto and 10 mi (16 km) north of Highway 18 in San Bernardino County .
El Mirage (corruption of El Miraje, Spanish for "The Mirage") is an unincorporated community in the western Victor Valley of the Mojave Desert, within San Bernardino County, California. El Mirage is next to the El Mirage Lake , a dry lake bed, and 12.5 miles (20.1 km) northwest of Adelanto .
El Mirage may refer to: El Mirage, Arizona, a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States; El Mirage Dry Lake, a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert, California, United States; El Mirage, the fifth solo album by Jimmy Webb; El Mirage, California, an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California, United States
The Mirage Auxiliary Airfield was built in triangle shape with four paved runways. Mirage Auxiliary Airfield was built on a dry lake bed to train pilots in take off and landing. Surrounded by the dry lake was ideal for the training of Waco CG-4 glider pilots. Gliders were taken off by the Douglas C-47 Skytrain Cargo aircraft.
The lakes, reservoirs, and dry lakes of the Mojave Desert region — predominantly in Southern California, and into southern Nevada and northwestern Arizona. Pages in category "Lakes of the Mojave Desert"
The dry lakes and mountainous terrain surrounding the town have been used in television, film, and photography, including movies such as Stagecoach (1939), Tarantula, and The Hills Have Eyes (1977). [21] On September 24–25, 2016, The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime shot an episode at Rabbit Dry Lake outside Lucerne Valley town limits. [22]
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To ease the overcrowded runways at Victorville, glider students practiced take-offs and landings at the El Mirage Lakebed and El Mirage Field. There were seven oiled runways on the dusty dry lake and they worked well until the lake bed flooded in January 1943. [7]