Cold desert climates in the US (transit, park, areas)

[Prickly Pear]

We are all well aware of hot deserts. Phoenix, El Paso, Palm Springs, Las Vegas, Tucson, they all sit in them. The US' desert region is rather filled with hot desert climates, which take up most of Nevada, all of Arizona except the "Green Belt" (look on Google Maps you'll know what I mean), most of New Mexico, most of Utah. What about cold deserts?

Cold deserts are incredibly rare climates as a whole when looking globally. Cold deserts, in its biggest concentration, are far west China and Mongolia, in the Gobi desert and in Tibet. They extend far north in Asia up into Kazakhstan and into China's Northeast region. The Gobi desert is THE cold desert worldwide.

What about areas with cold desert climates? What are the coldest our American deserts can see in the summer highs?

Albuquerque is considered a cold desert climate. Are there other places in the US?

[Bluefox]

Victorville in the California High Desert is officially classified as a cold desert climate, but its summer highs still approach 100.

[Bluefox]

Alamosa, CO and the rest of the San Luis Valley also comes to mind. Cold desert climate, only reaches an average high of 81 in July, its warmest month. Average low in July is 46. Colorado is rather similar to Central Asian mountainous areas which also feature this climate among other climates Colorado also sees.

[Scout0417]

Santa Fe NM is in the high desert.

[Turnerbro]

Boise ID could probably classify as a high cold desert.

[Hschlick84]

Most of Wyoming east of the Rockies. It's borderline desert, mostly dry grassland. Make a road trip to Yellowstone NP from Casper, WY you'll see what I'm talking about.

[eddie gein]

Northern Nevada, Eastern Oregon and Washington and the northeast part of California around Alturas and Susanville.

[BMI]

Great Basin is considered to be a "cold" desert, by Koppen.

The Great Basin includes most of Nevada (only southern Nevada is "hot desert", part of
the Mojave Desert).

The Great Basin also includes eastern Oregon, parts of Utah and a bit of Idaho.

Arid sections of the Colorado Plateau (hear 4 corners...SE Utah/SW Colorado/NW New Mexico
and NE Arizona are also a slightly milder version of a cold desert.

Other pockets of cold desert include....Colorado's San Luis Valley...Alamosa ...south into
north central New Mexico....Taos down to near Santa Fe.

Southern Wyoming's Red Desert area, where the continetal divide splits,
centered between Rock Springs and Lander.
Also Wyoming's Big Horn Basin....in a severe rainshadow...driest area in the state,
around Worland/Greybull.

Eastern Washington State has some very dry looking areas,
Grand Coulee Dam site ...south to Kennewick.
Even the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada has some small desert areas
also in a severe rainshadow, Ash-croft to Kamloops area.

Not sure if I would consider Albuquerque tobe cold desert, it is in a bit of a transition zone, at about 5,000 ft in central NM, over all too mild year round, It could be considered to be
at the northern edge of the "hot" Chihuahuan Desert, which is the largest of the hot deserts,
at about 250,000 square miles, mainly in north central Mexico, reaching into Southern NM,
SE AZ, and Texas west of the Pecos.

[NorthernLands]

Generally speaking our largest desert in the US which is the Great Basin Desert is a cold weather desert

https://www.nps.gov/grba/planyourvisit/weather.htm

"Climate
There is almost an 8,000 ft (2,400 m) difference in elevation between Wheeler Peak and the valley floor. Weather conditions in the park vary with elevation. In late spring and early summer, days in the valley may be hot, yet the snow pack may not have melted in the higher elevations. The Great Basin is a desert, with low relative humidity and sharp drops in temperature at night. In the summer, fierce afternoon thunderstorms are common. It can snow any time of the year at high elevations."

[Nn2036]

Reno which is in the great basin can be classified as cold desert, although its weather is officially a steppe.