The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid silt playa region consisting of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. It is situated in the Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, which is located about one hundred miles north of Reno, Nevada.
The Black Rock desert is located in the northwestern Nevada section of the Great Basin Desert and contains more than 120 miles of historic trails
The Black Rock desert It is in the northern Nevada section of the Great Basin with a lake bed that is a dry remnant of Pleistocene Lake Lahontan and a part of the Carson Sink. Previously, when the indigenous people of the US Southern cultures of the
third migration passed through the Black Rock desert area, they called the then existing lake, Tooh Hashtl′ish, which is from the
Navajo language meaning Mud Lake.
Black Rock Information:
Total Size:
1000 square miles
Primary Drainage:
Humbolt river, Quinn river
Secondary Drainage:
Little Humbolt river.
Biome:
(m2cont-nam-00-nevada) Basin and Range Region: Northern Basin Ecoregion, Nevada
Black Rock Desert: Nevada
Location:
Geographical Region:
Basin and Range
Black Rock Desert Hot Springs, (40.9739569, -119.0080532)
Double Hot Spring, Black Rock Desert, (41.0514210, -119.0287229)
Soldier Meadow Hot Springs, 112 degrees (41.3535079, -119.20491767)
Trego Hot Springs, 100 degrees (40.7718287, -119.1168858)
Trego has been closed because it being Contaminated as of 202000708.
