🏜️ Carson Sink

Carson Sink is a approximately 300 square miles (780 km2) playa next to a swampy lowland, approximately 100 sq mi in the northeastern portion of the Carson Desert in present-day Nevada, United States of America, that was formerly the terminus of the Carson River. Including the sand dunes and former beaches of prehistoric Lake Lahontan, the sink is over 1000 sq mi. It is located in northern Churchill County, northwest of Fallon. Today the sink is currently fed by drainage canals of the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District. The southeastern fringe of the sink, where the canals enter, is a wetland of the Central Basin and Range ecoregion characterized by shallow artificial lakes and sloughs called the Stillwater Marsh.