Reno

Honey Lake Valley lies where the Sierra Nevada gives way to the dry basins of the Great Basin. The Susan River flows east from volcanic uplands into Honey Lake, an intermittent lake with no outlet to the sea. Northern Paiute people used the valley extensively, while the country was also home to Maidu communities. The lake, its streams and the surrounding slopes formed part of a landscape shared and named long before the settlement of the region by newcomers.