Place 2 of 3Nevada, USA
Black Rock Desert
The history
A prehistoric lakebed — one of the flattest places on Earth — whose cracked alkali playa hosts the event and, the rest of the year, land-speed records.
In brief
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 (160 km) north of Reno, Nevada, that encompasses more than 300,000 acres (120,000 ha) of land and contains more than 120 miles (200 km) of historic trails. It is in the northern Nevada section of the Great Basin with a lakebed that is a dry remnant of Pleistocene Lake Lahontan.
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