Fascinating Facts
- Home to the Lahontan Cutthroat Trout, which formerly reached 40 pounds in size.....
- Humans have been using the resources of Walker Lake for at least the past 11,000 years....
- The Walker Paiute Tribe's name for themselves is the Agaicutta people, their word for the Cutthroat Trout......
- 100 species of birds were counted within 15 miles of the center of the lake during the 1996 Christmas Bird Count, done by the National Audubon Society.
- Walker Lake was named for Joseph Reddeford Walker who passed its shores in 1834, this is one of Nevada's few, large natural lakes.