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The wilderness is located in the Salmon and Scott Mountains, subranges of the Klamath Mountains region. The high, granitic and ultramafic peaks of the eastern half of the wilderness area are known as the Trinity Alps. Granite peaks at the core of the area are known as the White Trinities, reddish ultramafic peaks in the southeast are known as ...
The Trinity Alps Wilderness covers 517,000 acres (2,090 km 2), making it the second largest wilderness area in California. [2] The area was formerly known as the Salmon-Trinity Alps Primitive Area since 1932 until a series of expansions.
Thompson Peak is the highest Peak in the Trinity Alps Wilderness, a vast assemblage of craggy granite mountains in northwestern California (Trinity Alps Wilderness is the seventh largest designated wilderness area in California [5]). (Quote from Per SP member Ed Cooper) "It is incorrect to say that there is no longer glacial activity in the area.
Map of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest and Whiskeytown–Shasta–Trinity National Recreation Area. The Shasta–Trinity National Forest is a federally designated forest in northern California, United States. It is the largest National Forest in California and is managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The 2,210,485 acre (894,552 Ha) forest ...
Granite Peak is a mountain located in the Trinity Alps of California in the Trinity Alps Wilderness. It rises to the west of Highway 3 and Trinity Lake to an elevation of 8,094 feet (2,467 m). [1] [3] The peak receives copious amounts of snow during the winter. [4]
The Klamath Mountains are a rugged and lightly populated mountain range in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon in the western United States.As a mountain system within both the greater Pacific Coast Ranges and the California Coast Ranges, the Klamath Mountains have a varied geology, with substantial areas of serpentinite and marble, and a climate characterized by moderately cold ...
Emerald Lake is a lake located in the Trinity Alps Wilderness area, in Northern California. The lake sits in a granite bowl, approximately 5,500 ft (1,700 m) above sea level. It is dammed with a rock wall constructed many years ago when the area was used by miners.
Denny, California refers to two little mining settlements named Denny in northwestern Trinity County, one in the upper New River watershed within the Trinity Alps Wilderness Area and the other twenty miles downstream along a one-way county roadway. Terrain in the area is extremely steep and rugged. [2]