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Washoe Lake State Park sits on the lake's southeastern shore. [4] Washoe Lake is a eutrophic, shallow lake between Reno and Carson City and just east of the much larger Lake Tahoe. The lake reaches a maximum depth of just 12 feet (3.7 m). The shallowness and the high winds make the lake very turbid. Extensive droughts in the past have caused ...
Swan Lake is located in the midst of the rapidly developing suburbs of Stead and Lemmon Valley, near Peavine Peak north of Reno. According to a 1995 study, humans have lived in the area since as early as 400 AD; Native American artifacts attributed to the Washoe people have been found in the area, indicating it to have been a wintering site. [2]
Wadsworth is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washoe County, Nevada. [2] The population was 834 at the time of the 2010 census.It is part of the Reno–Sparks Metropolitan Statistical Area and located entirely within the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation.
U.S. Route 395 (US 395) is an 85-mile-long (137 km) United States Numbered Highway near Lake Tahoe in the state of Nevada.It traverses the state after entering from California in Topaz Lake and crosses back into California near Hallelujah Junction.
Lemmon Valley is located at (39.6638, -119.8270), [4] some 10 miles (16 km) north of downtown Golden Valley is adjacent to the south.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 18.4 square miles (47.6 km 2), of which 17.2 square miles (44.5 km 2) is land and 1.2 square miles (3.1 km 2), or 6.57%, is water, [3] consisting mainly of the Swan Lake Nature Study Area ...
Cold Springs is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washoe County, Nevada, United States. [2] It is known as Eitse'ihpaa or Eitse'ippaa (literally "cold water" or "cold spring") in Shoshoni. [3] It is located just off U.S. Route 395 in the northwestern part of the Reno–Sparks Metropolitan Statistical Area, adjacent to the California state line.
The Reno–Sparks Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in Western Nevada, anchored by the cities of Reno and Sparks. As of the 2020 census , the MSA had a population of 490,596.
Winnemucca Lake is a dry lake bed in northwest Nevada that features the oldest known petroglyphs in North America. Located astride the border between Washoe and Pershing counties, [ 1 ] it was a shallow lake until the 1930s, but was dried when a dam and a road were built that combined to restrict and block water flow.