Today we’re exploring Black Rock Desert in the far northwest of Nevada, where the ground is flat for over 400 square miles, between the barren but mineralized Calico and Jackson mountain ranges. This part of the state was once covered by a huge area of water (Lake Lahontan), remnants of which are found today at the Carson Sink and Pyramid Lake, but most of its former area is now just a series of dry, alkaline flats, of which the Black Rock Desert is the largest example.
most uniform section is the Black Rock Playa, which stretches for 35 miles, beginning just south of the small town of Gerlach and extending northeast towards the edge of the Black Rock Range.
Black Rock Desert is from the south, via a long straight road (NV 447) leading north from the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, and passing no development of any kind. Once past Nixon, the only significant town in the reservation, much of the 60 miles to Gerlach is through a straight, narrow valley, containing the dry bed of Winnemucca Lake and lined by treeless, grassy mountains. The last few miles pass over an undulating hilly area, site of a few working mines, before the highway descends to the edge of the desert and the tiny village of Empire, which has a general store, a few houses, a gypsum processing plant, an airstrip and even a 9-hole golf course. The road then crosses the south end of Black Rock Playa, here just half a mile wide, and reaches Gerlach, a slightly larger settlement of around 100 homes, a gas station, railway sidings, and a selection of bars and other businesses, including the permanent headquarters of the Burning Man organization.
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