slgwv's photos with the keyword: Owyhee

Just beyond the filling station in Owyhee, Nevada, in far northern Nevada. The next fuel is in Elko, Nevada, where this highway joins Interstate-80!

On Bull Run Creek, which drains into the South Fork of the Owyhee. (Yes, I know "Bull Run Creek" is redundant. Probably the folks who named it didn't know that "run" means creek!) The Owyhee drains northward into the Snake, so this little sliver of northern Nevada is actually in the Columbia River drainage, not the Great Basin.

Built as a CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) project in the late 1930s. Now flooded by the newer dam just downstream. It's on the Owyhee River, which drains north into the Snake. This little sliver of extreme northern Nevada is thus in the Columbia River's drainage, not the Great Basin.