A report on Truckee River, Reno, Nevada and Nevada
The Truckee River is a river in the U.S. states of California and Nevada.
- Truckee RiverReno 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, NevadaKnown for its casino and tourism industry, Reno is the county seat and largest city of Washoe County and sits in the High Eastern Sierra foothills, in the Truckee River valley, on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada.
- Reno, NevadaIt 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.
- Truckee RiverSeveral rivers drain from the Sierra Nevada eastward, including the Walker, Truckee, and Carson rivers.
- NevadaIts county seat is Reno.
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Lake Tahoe
1 linksLarge freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the United States.
Large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the United States.
Lying at 6225 ft, it straddles the state line between California and Nevada, west of Carson City.
The Truckee River is the lake's only outlet, flowing northeast through Reno, Nevada, into Pyramid Lake which has no outlet.
During 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.
Sierra Nevada
1 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.
From north to south, the Susan River flows into intermittent Honey Lake, the Truckee River flows from Lake Tahoe into Pyramid Lake, the Carson River runs into Carson Sink, the Walker River into Walker Lake; Rush, Lee Vining and Mill Creeks flow into Mono Lake; and the Owens River into dry Owens Lake.
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.