Palisade Canyon is a

canyon A canyon (from ; archaic British English spelling: ''cañon''), or gorge, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosion, erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. Rivers have a natural tenden ...

along the

Humboldt River The Humboldt River is an extensive river drainage system located in north-central Nevada. It extends in a general east-to-west direction from its headwaters in the Jarbidge, Independence, and Ruby Mountains in Elko County, to its terminus in the ...

in northern

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, United States.

Description

The canyon runs along the Humboldt River roughly between State Route 278 upstream (about south–southwest of Carlin), and a point about west of Beowawe and State Route 306 downstream (about east–southeast of Battle Mountain). The Humboldt River, rather than flowing into the ocean, eventually loses all its water to evaporation in the

Humboldt Sink The Humboldt Sink is an intermittent dry lake bed, approximately 11 mi (18 km) long, and 4 mi (6 km) across, in northwestern Nevada in the United States. The body of water in the sink is known as Humboldt Lake. The sink and it ...

, and stream-gage measurements undertaken by the

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suggest that Palisade Canyon is the point where the river's flow ceases to increase and begins to decrease. The canyon was named from a fancied resemblance to the

Hudson River Palisades The Palisades, also called the New Jersey Palisades or the Hudson River Palisades, are a line of steep cliffs along the west side of the lower Hudson River in Gateway Region, Northeastern New Jersey and Downstate New York, Southeastern New York ...

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