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 Reno, Nevada, that encompasses more than 300,000 acres of land and contains more than 120 miles of historic trails.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Depression with an elevation of 3,907 feet
- Description: Northwest Nevada dry lake
- Also known as: “Granite Creek Desert” and “Valley of the Mud Lakes”
Black Rock Desert
- Categories: semi-arid climate, desert, and landform
- Location: Pershing, Nevada, Southwest, United States, North America
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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”
- 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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