Playas Lake is a dry lake or playa in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States.

It lies at an elevation of 4,278 feet (1,304 m).

It consists of a long dry lake running north northwest south southeast within the Playas Valley between the Animas Mountains on the west and the Little Hatchet Mountains on the east.

[1] From November 1846 to the early 1850s Cooke's Wagon Road crossed Playas Lake to Whitmire Spring from the northeast.

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