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The following is a list of mountain passes and gaps in California.California is geographically diverse with numerous roads and railways traversing within its borders. In the middle of the U.S. state lies the California Central Valley, bounded by the coastal mountain ranges in the west, the Sierra Nevada to the east, the Cascade Range in the north and the Tehachapi Mountains in the south.
Cascade (formerly, Cascade City) is an unincorporated community in Plumas County, California. [1] It lies at an elevation of 4055 feet (1236 m). [ 1 ] Cascade is located 20 miles (32.2 km) southwest of Quincy .
Map of California topography and geomorphic provinces California's major mountain ranges. California is a U.S. state on the western coast of North America. Covering an area of 163,696 sq mi (423,970 km 2), California is among the most geographically diverse states.
The Cascade-Sierra province is a physiographic region of mountains in the western United States, east and adjacent to Pacific Border province and west and adjacent to the Basin and Range Province (in the south) and Columbia Plateau Province (in the north).
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The first non-Native Americans entered the Shasta Cascade region by coming south along the Siskiyou Trail from Oregon, or north along the Siskiyou Trail from central California or the San Francisco Bay Area. These earliest explorers were probably British and American fur-trappers and traders in the 1820s and 1830s, although it is also possible ...
Cascade Falls, a 30-foot cascade in Cascade Creek, a tributary of Old Mill Creek in Mill Valley, California Old Mill Creek drains a watershed of approximately 1.86 square miles (4.8 km 2 ). [ 4 ] Old Mill Creek, and its 1 mile (1.6 km) long tributary Cascade Creek [ 5 ] both begin high on the southeast flank of the East Peak of Mount Tamalpais .
Cascade Lake is a glacial lake located in El Dorado County, California approximately 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from Lake Tahoe. Cascade Lake is the second largest tributary lake feeding into Lake Tahoe. Its depth is 170 feet (52 m), 1 mile (1.6 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide. [2]