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The rust colored mountains, which cover 46,758 acres, were designated the Dead Mountains Wilderness in 1994 by the United States Congress as part of the California Desert Protection Act of 1994. [4] They are maintained by the Bureau of Land Management. [5] The vegetation is mostly creosote bush and desert wash scrub.
There are three main deserts in California: the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Desert, and the Great Basin Desert. [5]: 408 The Mojave Desert is bounded by the Tehachapi Mountains on the northwest, the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains on the south, and extends eastward to California's borders with Arizona and Nevada; it also forms portions of northwest Arizona.
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. The following list comprises the mountain ranges of U.S. State of California designated by the United States Board on Geographic Names and cataloged in the Geographic Names Information System .
These east-to-west running ranges include a variety of different mountains. Some mountains are steep like the San Gabriel Mountains. Other areas of the Transverse Ranges have a very low elevation like the Mojave Desert. The mountains ranges comprising the Transverse ranges include: [25] Transverse Ranges. Santa Ynez Mountains; San Rafael Mountains
The Panamint Range is a short rugged fault-block mountain range in the northern Mojave Desert, within Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, eastern California.A small part of the southern end of the range is in San Bernardino County. [3]
The Clark Mountain Range is located in southeastern California, north of Interstate 15 and the community of Mountain Pass. The range stretches approximately 15 miles (24 km) in a southwest-northeasterly direction, beginning in the Mojave National Preserve , and ending near Stateline Pass, about one mile (1.6 km) from the Nevada border.
The mountain rises abruptly north of Mountain Pass and Interstate 15 to an elevation of 7,933 ft (2,418 m), which is the highest point of the Mojave National Preserve and the Mojave Desert ranges. [4] Path 46 and Path 64 (part of Path 46) 500 kV power lines run to the north and south of the mountain, respectively. [5]
The Granite Mountains is a mountain range in San Bernardino County, California, United States. [1] It lies east of Victorville and Apple Valley , west of Lucerne Valley . It is one of three mountain ranges in the Mojave Desert to share this name.