dry lake

noun

1. a tract of land in a desert region over which a shallow lake is formed during the rainy season or after prolonged heavy rains.

Example Sentences

Open areas like Johnson Valley — where you can race your side-by-side as fast as you want or land an ultralight on a dry lake bed — are unique American experiences that are growing rarer, he said.

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Since 2018, the Salton Sea no longer gets an inflow of fresh water, only agricultural runoff, so it is evaporating and shrinking while the exposed, dry lake bed area is expanding, feeding clouds of particulate.

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Since then, the dry lake has come back to life occasionally during California’s wettest years.

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But the lake soon retreated and farming resumed on the dry lake bed.

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Other at-risk areas included portions of San Bernardino, Inyo and Cleveland national forests as well as BLM land in the Mojave Desert, such as Coyote Dry Lake Bed outside of Joshua Tree National Park.

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