West Walker River

The West Walker River is a tributary of the Walker River, approximately 95 miles (153 km) long, in eastern California and western Nevada in the United States. It drains part of the Sierra Nevada range along the California-Nevada border in the watershed of Walker Lake in the Great Basin. The river derives its name from Joseph R. Walker, a mountain man.

It rises on the east side of the Sierra Nevada, north of Yosemite National Park in northwestern Mono County. Starting from snowfields on the faces of Tower Peak and Forsyth Peak in the Toiyabe National Forest, it flows down the Sierra, then n...