With a population of over 218,000, Reno is the largest
city in Northern Nevada. It is located in the southern part of Washoe County, nestled on the
eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in an area called the Truckee Meadows.
Reno is America's Adventure Place! The Truckee Meadows and surrounding area provide unlimited
indoor and outdoor recreational activities. Spectacular Lake Tahoe and the largest concentration of
ski areas and ski facilities in the world are all within a fifty-mile radius. Biking, camping,
hunting, fishing and mountain climbing are all activities Reno residents and visitors
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Carson City is approximately 10 miles from Lake Tahoe and is about 153 square miles in area.
It abuts the Sierra Nevada Mountains which are the entrance to the basin from the west and the
terminus from the east. The magnificent mountains intercept and exhaust the moisture of the
air currents ever flowing from the Pacific Ocean eastward, consequently they pass comparatively
rainless over the broad basin region, leaving it desert-like.