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Pyramid Lake is the biggest remnant of ancient Lake Lahontan, the inland sea that once covered much of western Nevada. [2] It is approximately 27 miles (43 km) long and 11 miles (18 km) wide, with a perimeter of 71 miles (114 km), covering 112,000 acres (45,000 ha) acres entirely enclosed within the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Reservation .
Pyramid Lake Museum. The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Reservation (Northern Paiute: kuyuuiba) [4] [5] is a United States reservation in northwestern Nevada, approximately 35 miles (56 km) northeast of Reno, in Washoe, Storey, and Lyon counties.
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.
State Route 445 (SR 445) is a 41.890-mile-long (67.415 km) state highway in Washoe County, Nevada. The route follows Pyramid Way, a major thoroughfare in the city of Sparks, and connects the Reno metropolitan area to Pyramid Lake. The route is designated a Nevada Scenic Byway.
View north from the south end of SR 447 SR 447 leaving Winnemucca Lake northbound toward Empire SR 447 between Wadsworth and Pyramid Lake. The route begins at a junction with Old US 40 in Wadsworth. The highway proceeds north following the path of the Truckee River, and passes along the east side of the river's terminus at Pyramid Lake near Nixon.
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.
File:USA Nevada location map.svg for borders and rivers; Own work . This map was created with GMT. ... Pyramid Lake (Nevada) Humboldtgebirge (Nordamerika) Walker Lake;
State Route 446 (SR 446) is a 13.156-mile-long (21.173 km) state highway serving Washoe County, Nevada. The route runs from SR 445 (Pyramid Lake Highway) to SR 447 (Gerlach Road) at the town of Nixon. [1] View at the east end of SR 446 looking westbound