Walker Lake State Recreation Area is a state park unit of Nevada, USA, on the west shore of Walker Lake. The park is within the Great Basin, and the Central Nevada Region of the Nevada State Parks system. Walker Lake State Recreation Area is located north of the town of Hawthorne, on U.S. Route 95 in Nevada.
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Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Archbishop Luigi Barito (b. 1922)
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