A report on Nevada, Lake Tahoe and Reno, Nevada
Reno is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada-California border, about 22 mi from Lake Tahoe, known as "The Biggest Little City in the World".
- Reno, NevadaLying at 6225 ft, it straddles the state line between California and Nevada, west of Carson City.
- Lake TahoeAreas south of the Great Basin are within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada lie on the western edge.
- NevadaIts county seat is Reno.
- NevadaDuring ski season, thousands of people from all over Nevada and California, including Reno, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Sacramento, flock to the slopes for downhill skiing.
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Sierra Nevada
2 linksMountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.
Mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.
The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primarily in Nevada.
Notable features include General Sherman, the largest tree in the world by volume; Lake Tahoe, the largest alpine lake in North America; Mount Whitney at 14505 ft, the highest point in the contiguous United States; and Yosemite Valley sculpted by glaciers from one-hundred-million-year-old granite, containing high waterfalls.
Because of the large number of airplanes that have crashed in the Sierra Nevada, primarily due to the complex weather and atmospheric conditions such as downdrafts and microbursts caused by geography there, a portion of the area, a triangle whose vertices are Reno, Nevada; Fresno, California; and Las Vegas, Nevada, has been dubbed the "Nevada Triangle", in reference to the Bermuda Triangle.
Sacramento, California
2 linksCapital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat and largest city of Sacramento County.
Capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat and largest city of Sacramento County.
Interstate 80 (I-80) is the major east–west route, connecting Sacramento with San Francisco in the west, and Reno in the east.
Sacramento is the northern terminus of the Amtrak California San Joaquins route which provide direct multiple-frequency passenger rail service to California's Central Valley as far as Bakersfield; Thruway Motorcoach connections are available from the trains at Bakersfield to Southern California and Southern Nevada.
The third and final thruway motorcoach route serves Placerville, Lake Tahoe, Stateline Casinos, and Carson City, Nevada.
Carson City, Nevada
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Carson City is an independent city and the capital of the U.S. state of Nevada.
The majority of the city's population lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra Nevada, about 30 mi south of Reno.
With the consolidation, the city limits extend west across the Sierra Nevada to the California state line in the middle of Lake Tahoe.
Truckee River
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The Truckee River is a river in the U.S. states of California and Nevada.
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.
It flows generally northeast through the mountains to Truckee, California, then turns sharply to the east and flows into Nevada, through Reno and Sparks and along the northern end of the Carson Range.