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The Buena Vista Valley is an approximately 40-mile (64 km) long valley located in central-east Pershing County , Nevada . Unionville , Nevada lies at its northwest, at the foothills of the Humboldt Range .

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3-454: The valley contains the approximately 18-mile (29 km) long Buena Vista Lake Bed , a crescent shaped lakebed adjacent the southeast perimeter of the Humboldt Range. The Buena Vista Valley is an approximately north–south trending valley, and crescent shaped narrowing both due-north in its north end, and due-southwest in the south. The narrowing in the north is from the perimeter ranges of

6-474: The Carson Sink and the southwest Buena Vista Valley. This hilly region is located in a sub-valley region, named "Antelope Valley". The south of Buena Vista Valley can be accessed from the west via Interstate 80 , north of Lovelock , via Coal Canyon Road; the road is paved to the valley's south end. The valley's north has Nevada State Route 400 traversing due-south from Mill City on I-80 to Unionville at

9-700: The Humboldt Range, west and the East Range , east. The valley is at its widest at the north end of the Buena Vista Lake Bed, about 13-mi. The southwest is a region connected to the northwest of the Carson Sink . The narrowing of the valley southwestwards is caused by the Stillwater Range , its north section which turns to trend due-northeast. The low elevation Buena Vista Hills, 5,220 feet (1,591 m), and Chocolate Butte, 4,778 feet (1,456 m), lie between

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