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The Truckee River is a river in the U.S. states of California and Nevada.The river flows northeasterly and is 121 miles (195 km) long. [3] [6] The Truckee is the sole outlet of Lake Tahoe and drains part of the high Sierra Nevada, emptying into Pyramid Lake in the Great Basin.
The Upper Truckee River is a stream that flows northward from the western slope of Red Lake Peak in Alpine County, California to Lake Tahoe via the Truckee Marsh in South Lake Tahoe, California. The river flows northeasterly and is 23 miles (37 km) long. [3] It is Lake Tahoe's largest tributary. [4]
The Little Truckee River is a 34.3-mile-long (55.2 km) [1] river that is a tributary to its larger counterpart, the Truckee River, north of Lake Tahoe. It drains the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevada , flowing through Sierra County and Nevada County in eastern California .
The Truckee Meadows is a valley in western Nevada located within the western Great Basin. Named for the Truckee River, which flows through the valley from west to east, this area contains archaeological evidence of aboriginal human occupation. [2] The Truckee Formation, is the oldest deposit of the valley and yields very little water to wells.
Trout Creek is a small tributary of the Truckee River draining about 5.1 square miles (13 km 2) along the eastern crest of the Sierra Nevada.It originates east of Donner Ridge and north of Donner Lake in the Tahoe–Donner Golf Course and flows through the town of Truckee, California, to its confluence with the Truckee River in Nevada County, California, just west of Highway 267.
Pyramid Lake is fed by the Truckee River, which is mostly the outflow from Lake Tahoe. The Truckee River enters Pyramid Lake at its southern end. Pyramid Lake is an endorheic lake, with water leaving only by evaporation or sub-surface seepage. The lake has about 10% of the area of the Great Salt Lake, but it has about 25% more volume.
Truckee reportedly had one of the nation's first mechanized ski lifts at the site of the Hilltop Lodge. [13] The historic Hilltop Lodge was converted to a restaurant in the 1940s by the Crandall Brothers, and eventually became Cottonwood Restaurant and Bar. [14] There were possibly two rope tows and a Poma lift, which was installed in 1954. [15]
The Virginia Street Bridge was a historic concrete double arch bridge in downtown Reno, Nevada, US, carrying Virginia Street across the Truckee River. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [3] The bridge is sometimes referred to as the "Wedding Ring Bridge" or the "Bridge of Sighs". [2]