Black Rock Desert

The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats, situated in the Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, a silt playa 100 miles north of , that encompasses more than 300,000 acres of land and contains more than 120 miles of historic trails.
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  • Depression with an elevation of 3,907 feet (1,191 metres)
  • Description: Northwest Nevada dry lake
  • Also known as
    “Granite Creek Desert”
    “Valley of the Mud Lakes”

Black Rock Desert

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Latitude
40.91073° or 40° 54′ 39″ north
Longitude
-119.05601° or 119° 3′ 22″ west
Open location code
85G2WW6V+7H
Geo­Names ID
5701651
Wiki­data ID
Q880529

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Black Rock Desert” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “صحراء بلاك روك”
  • Asturian: “Desiertu de Black Rock”
  • Azerbaijani: “Blək-Rok”
  • Bulgarian: “Блек Рок (пустиня)”
  • Bulgarian: “Блек Рок”
  • Catalan: “desert de Black Rock”
  • Catalan: “Desert de Black Rock”
  • Cebuano: “Black Rock Desert”
  • Chinese: “黑岩石沙漠”
  • Chinese: “黑石沙漠”
  • Czech: “Black Rock Desert”
  • Dutch: “Black Rock Desert”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا بلاك روك”
  • French: “Black Rock Desert”
  • French: “désert de Black Rock”
  • French: “Désert de Black Rock”
  • Georgian: “შავი კლდის უდაბნო”
  • German: “Black Rock Desert”
  • Hebrew: “מדבר הסלע השחור”
  • Italian: “deserto Black Rock”
  • Italian: “Deserto Black Rock”
  • Japanese: “ブラックロック砂漠”
  • Korean: “블랙록 사막”
  • Malay: “Gunung Berapi Black Rock Desert”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Black Rock Desert”
  • Norwegian: “Black Rock Desert”
  • Persian: “بیابان بلک راک”
  • Polish: “Pustynia Black Rock”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto de Black Rock”
  • Russian: “Блэк-Рок”
  • Russian: “Пустыня Блэк-Рок”
  • Russian: “Пустыня Чёрной Скалы”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Black Rock Desert”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Creag Dhubh (fàsach)”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Creag Dhubh”
  • Spanish: “Desierto Black Rock”
  • Spanish: “Desierto de Black Rock”
  • Tamil: “கரும்பாறை பாலைவனம்”
  • Turkish: “Black Rock Çölü”
  • Turkish: “Kara kaya çölü”
  • Turkish: “Kara Kaya Çölü”
  • Ukrainian: “Блек-Рок (пустеля)”
  • Ukrainian: “Блек-Рок”
  • Vietnamese: “Sa mạc Black Rock”

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