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At Tanque Verde Ranch, one of the country’s top dude ranches, riders can meander through desert washes (seasonally dry riverbeds), climb rocky hillsides, and experience the quiet solitude of the open desert.
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Visit Tucson, AFAR Media, 21 Mar. 2025
In the usual Santa Ana storms, most of that flow streams out of the desert, through mountain passes and into the valleys along predictable pathways, like water coursing down riverbeds.
—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
The partial skeletal remains were found on March 22, 1995, in a riverbed off Highway 129 in Santa Cruz County, about 29 miles south of San Jose, said the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025
Manny Trujillo watched the fire spread into a dry riverbed across the street from his home in Castaic.
—Corina Knoll, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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Visit Tucson, AFAR Media, 21 Mar. 2025
In the usual Santa Ana storms, most of that flow streams out of the desert, through mountain passes and into the valleys along predictable pathways, like water coursing down riverbeds.
—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
The partial skeletal remains were found on March 22, 1995, in a riverbed off Highway 129 in Santa Cruz County, about 29 miles south of San Jose, said the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025
Manny Trujillo watched the fire spread into a dry riverbed across the street from his home in Castaic.
—Corina Knoll, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Riverbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/riverbed. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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riverbed
noun
riv·er·bed
-ˌbed 
: the channel occupied or once occupied by a river
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