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Lahontan State Recreation Area | State Parks - Nevada With willows and cottonwoods scattered along 69 miles of shoreline, the park is one of most popular places in Nevada to boat, fish, water-ski, horseback ride, camp and enjoy the outdoors year-round Canoeing from Fort Churchill to the lake makes for a great day trip when conditions allow
Lake Lahontan - Wikipedia Lake Lahontan was a large endorheic prehistoric lake during the Pleistocene that occupied modern northwestern Nevada and extended into northeastern California and southern Oregon
Lahontan State Recreation Area | Fallon, NV | Lake Lahontan Lahontan State Recreation Area, near Fallon, Nevada, offers 69 miles of shoreline and offers fishing, boating, water skiing, camping, picnicking, boat launches, restrooms with showers, and RV dump stations Horseback riding and wildlife viewing are best in the spring at Lake Lahontan
Where did the name Lahontan come from? - Water Boards King named the area for a 17th century French explorer whose essays included his experiences in North America The name Lahontan will be familiar to those of French and Canadian descent The Baron Louis de La Hontan was a French nobleman turned explorer; a landed gentryman with holdings in Lahontan
Lahontan State Recreation Area, Nevada - American Southwest Lahontan State Recreation Area contains an artificial lake along the Carson River, formed after construction of a dam in 1915, surrounded by sandy, high desert land, with 69 miles of shoreline
History of Lahontan State Recreation Area | State Parks The reservoir is named after ancient Lake Lahontan which covered more than 85,000 square miles of the western Great Basin during the last Ice Age Traces of the ancient shoreline can be seen on the mountain sides of the surrounding region Lahontan became a Nevada State Recreation Area in 1971
Lahontan Valley - Wikipedia The Forty Mile Desert is a California Gold Rush name for Nevada's Lahontan Valley and the adjoining area to the northwest Emigrants following the California Trail west came into the Lahontan Valley via the Humboldt River
Natural Resources and Climate of Lahontan State Recreation Area | State . . . Lahontan is one of the few nesting sites for bald eagles The climate is typical of the northern Nevada desert region Rainfall is slight, averaging less than six inches annually Sunny skies are the norm, with summer daytime temperatures near 90˚F Nights may drop below 50 degrees
Lake Lahontan (reservoir) - Wikipedia The lake is named after ancient Lake Lahontan, which covered much of northwestern Nevada during the last ice age Lake Lahontan is 17 miles (27 km) long and has 69 miles (111 km) of shoreline