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{{Short description|Recreation area in Nevada, United States}}
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| photo_caption   = Walker Lake Recreation Area, November 2011
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| location        = [[Mineral County, Nevada|Mineral]], [[Nevada]], [[United States]]
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'''Walker Lake State Recreation Area''' was a recreation area of [[Nevada]], [[United States]], located on the south west shore of [[Walker Lake (Nevada)|Walker Lake]]. The area was previously protected as a [[List of Nevada state parks|Nevada State Park]] featuring a boat launch and picnic tables. Currently, the [[Bureau of Land Management]] manages three campgrounds along the western shore as the '''Walker Lake Recreation Area'''.<ref>[https://www.blm.gov/visit/walker-lake-recreation-area BLM]</ref>  It is situated is within the [[Great Basin]], and located north of the town of [[Hawthorne, Nevada|Hawthorne]], on [[U.S. Route 95 in Nevada]].

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://parks.nv.gov/walk.htm Walker Lake State Recreation Area]

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[[Category:Protected areas of Mineral County, Nevada]]
[[Category:State parks of Nevada]]
[[Category:Protected areas of the Great Basin]]


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