How many miles northeast of Reno is the Lake that a 121 mile long river in California and Nevada empties into?
Pyramid Lake (Nevada) Pyramid Lake is the geographic sink of the Truckee River Basin, 40 mi northeast of Reno.
Temescal Creek (Riverside County) Temescal Creek (shown on federal maps as Temescal Wash) is an approximately 29 mi watercourse in Riverside County, in the U.S. state of California. Flowing primarily in a northwestern direction, it connects Lake Elsinore with the Santa Ana River. It drains the eastern slopes of the Santa Ana Mountains on its left and on its right the western slopes of the Temescal Mountains along its length. With a drainage basin of about 1000 mi2 , it is the largest tributary of the Santa Ana River, hydrologically connecting the 720 mi2 San Jacinto River and Lake Elsinore watersheds to the rest of the Santa Ana watershed. However, flowing through an arid rain shadow zone of the Santa Ana Mountains, and with diversion of ground water for human use, the creek today is ephemeral for most of its length, except for runoff from housing developments and agricultural return flows.