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The 9 highest summits of Missouri with at least 100 meters of topographic prominence; Rank Mountain peak County Mountain range Elevation Prominence Isolation Location; 1 Taum Sauk Mountain [1] [a] Iron County: St. Francois Mountains: 540 m 1,772 ft: 156 m 512 ft: 238 km 148.1 mi
The Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve was assembled in several stages; two parcels, comprising 3,100 acres (13 km 2), were purchased by The Nature Conservancy in 1984. The intervening parcels were purchased in the 1990s by the State of California , the Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District , [ 3 ] and the Metropolitan Water ...
Toro Peak and the Santa Rosa Mountains come under the category of sky island mountains. Vegetation on the mountain is a mixed variety of trees: Incense Cedar , White Fir , Jeffrey Pine , Ponderosa Pine , Sugar Pine and on the highest slopes Limber Pine , which is an ice age remnant species.
The two highest points in the state are Taum Sauk Mountain at 1,772 ft (540 m) in the St. Francois Mountains in Iron County and Lead Hill just east of the community of Cedar Gap at 1,744 ft (532 m) in the southwestern corner of Wright County. Few localities have an elevation exceeding 1,400 ft (430 m).
La Cresta is an unincorporated community in the Santa Rosa Plateau region in Riverside County, California, United States. It is situated west of Murrieta, north of Temecula and the San Diego County Border, and east of Orange County. It is centrally located approximately 55 miles from downtown San Diego, 65 miles from downtown Los Angeles, and ...
The Santa Rosa Wilderness is a 72,259-acre (292.42 km 2) wilderness area in Southern California, in the Santa Rosa Mountains of Riverside and San Diego counties, California. It is in the Colorado Desert section of the Sonoran Desert , above the Coachella Valley and Lower Colorado River Valley regions in a Peninsular Range , between La Quinta to ...
The Santa Rosa Mountains extend for approximately 30 miles (48 km) along the western side of the Coachella Valley within Riverside, San Diego, and Imperial Counties in Southern California. The range connects to the San Jacinto Mountains on its northern end, where the Pines to Palms Highway— California State Route 74 , crosses them.
Los Alamos Canyon Creek has one named tributary Wildhorse Canyon Creek [5] but has two unnamed arroyos descending from the Elsinore Mountains. [6] [7] and one that drains the western Santa Rosa Plateau and the east slope of the Tenaja Mountain highland and descends to the north to join the creek where it turns to the west. [8]