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Shaded relief map, Arizona. Arizona county index map. There are 210 named mountain ranges in Arizona.This list also includes mountain ranges that are mostly in New Mexico and Sonora, Mexico, that extend into Arizona.
All mountain ranges in Arizona should be included in this category; The main article for this category is List of mountain ranges of Arizona; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mountain ranges of Arizona; See also category Mountains of Arizona
Many mountain ranges exceed 9,000 feet (2,700 m) in elevation, and some can hold snow all summer. Arizona has 194 named mountain ranges. The highest are along the southwest margin of the Colorado Plateau, including the volcanic San Francisco Peaks just north of Flagstaff and the White Mountains of the Mogollon Rim.
The following is a list of the mountains and hills of Arizona, ordered by height. Entries in bold indicate the peak is the highest point in its respective county. Entries with a † indicate the peak has a low topographic prominence and may be considered a subpeak to a higher nearby summit.
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is located on the west flank of the Tucson Mountains. Much of the range is protected by Saguaro National Park and Tucson Mountain Park, run by Pima County. Old Tucson Studios are located just west of the Tucson Mountains. Tucson Mountain Park was established in April 1929.
The Mazatzal Mountains (MAH-zaht-ZAL, locally Ma-tuh-ZEL) are a mountain range in south central Arizona, about 30–45 miles northeast of the Phoenix metropolitan area. The origin of the name remains obscure but one possibility is that it is from the Nahuatl language meaning "place of the deer".
The main article for this category is List of mountain peaks of Arizona; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mountains of Arizona; See also List of mountains and hills of Arizona by height, List of highest points in Arizona by county and category Mountain ranges of Arizona
Humphreys Peak is the highest summit of the U.S. State of Arizona. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of the U.S. State of Arizona. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level.