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It is located on land managed by the United States Bureau of Land Management as the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, part of the Rainbow Mountain Wilderness Area. It is the highest peak in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. Mount Wilson is 17 miles (27 km) west of downtown Las Vegas in Clark County, Nevada.
The CDP is located on Mount Wilson Road, 8 miles (13 km) east of U.S. Route 93, along which it is 23 miles (37 km) south to Pioche and 84 miles (135 km) north to Ely. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Mount Wilson CDP has an area of 4.6 square miles (11.9 km 2 ), all of it land.
The Wilson Cliffs, a massive escarpment, can be seen to the west from SR 159. Toward the southern end of the National Conservation Area are Spring Mountain Ranch State Park ; the town of Blue Diamond ; and Bonnie Springs Ranch , which includes a replica of a western ghost town, but which in 2019 was sold and closed to the public.
Mount Wilson can refer to several things: Antarctica. Mount Wilson (Antarctica), a mountain on the Bowman Coast of Antarctica; Australia. Mount Wilson, New South Wales, a mountain with a small hamlet; United States. Mount Wilson (Arizona) Mount Wilson (California) Mount Wilson Observatory; Mount Wilson (Colorado)
Alvin R. McLane, Silent Cordilleras: The Mountain Ranges of Nevada. (Reno: Camp Nevada Monograph #4, 1978) (Reno: Camp Nevada Monograph #4, 1978) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) , USGS
Boundary Peak is the highest summit in the U.S. State of Nevada. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [Notes 1] of the U.S. State of Nevada. 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.
The observatory sits at the summit of 5,715-foot Mt. Wilson, accessible only by a serpentine stretch of Angeles Crest Highway. When George Ellery Hale established it in 1904 with funding from what ...
Mount Wilson is a summit in the U.S. state of Nevada. [1] The elevation is 6,745 feet (2,056 m). [1] Mount Wilson was named after David Wilson. [2] References