Black Mesa

Black Mesa may refer to:

Places in the United States:

  • Black Mesa (Oklahoma), in Colorado, New Mexico, and the highest point in Oklahoma
  • Black Mesa Test Range, a United States Army rocket testing facility
  • Black Mesa (Apache-Navajo Counties, Arizona), an upland coal-bearing mesa, mountainous area in Navajo and Apache Counties, Arizona
    • Black Mesa Peabody Coal controversy, the controversy surrounding a Peabody Coal mine in the Black Mesa (Apache-Navajo Counties, Arizona)
  • Black Mesa (Warm Springs, Arizona), a southern section of Black Mountains (Arizona) containing the Warm Springs Wilderness, and setting for the 1936 film The Petrified Forest

In the Half-Life video game series:

  • Black Mesa Research Facility, a fictional scientific research complex in New Mexico that forms the setting for the video game Half-Life
  • Black Mesa East, a fictional resistance base in Eastern Europe, featured in Half-Life 2
  • Black Mesa (video game), a Source modification and remake of the original Half-Life

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or mesa:

    “Rain falls for centuries
    Soaking the loose rocks in space
    Sweet rain, the fire’s out
    The black snag glistens in the rain
    & the last wisp of smoke floats up”
    —Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    “This mesa plain had an appearance of great antiquity, and of incompleteness; as if, with all the materials for world-making assembled, the Creator had desisted, gone away and left everything on the point of being brought together, on the eve of being arranged into mountain, plain, plateau. The country was still waiting to be made into a landscape.”
    —Willa Cather (1873–1947)