Black Mesa may refer to:
Places in the United States:
- Black Mesa (Oklahoma), in Colorado, New Mexico, and the highest point in Oklahoma
- Black Mesa Test Range, a United States Army rocket testing facility
- Black Mesa (Apache-Navajo Counties, Arizona), an upland coal-bearing mesa, mountainous area in Navajo and Apache Counties, Arizona
- Black Mesa Peabody Coal controversy, the controversy surrounding a Peabody Coal mine in the Black Mesa (Apache-Navajo Counties, Arizona)
- Black Mesa (Warm Springs, Arizona), a southern section of Black Mountains (Arizona) containing the Warm Springs Wilderness, and setting for the 1936 film The Petrified Forest
In the Half-Life video game series:
- Black Mesa Research Facility, a fictional scientific research complex in New Mexico that forms the setting for the video game Half-Life
- Black Mesa East, a fictional resistance base in Eastern Europe, featured in Half-Life 2
- Black Mesa (video game), a Source modification and remake of the original Half-Life
Famous quotes containing the words black and/or mesa:
“If a child were kept in a place where he never saw any other but black and white till he were a man, he would have no more ideas of scarlet or green, than he that from his childhood never tasted an oyster, or a pineapple, has of those particular relishes.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)
“This mesa plain had an appearance of great antiquity, and of incompleteness; as if, with all the materials for world-making assembled, the Creator had desisted, gone away and left everything on the point of being brought together, on the eve of being arranged into mountain, plain, plateau. The country was still waiting to be made into a landscape.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)