Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
North Palisade is the highest summit of the Palisades of the Sierra Nevada. The stratovolcano Mount Shasta is the second most topographically prominent California mountain peak. Mount Humphreys in the Sierra Nevada. Mount Darwin is the highest summit of the Evolution Peaks of the Sierra Nevada. Mount Tom in the Sierra Nevada.
Coordinates: 36.5786°N 118.2920°W. Mount Whitney is the highest summit of the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. This is a complete list of the 12 summits with elevation higher than 14,000 feet (4,267 m) in the U.S. state of California, with at least 300 feet (91.44 meters) of topographic prominence.
Mount Whitney (Paiute: Tumanguya; Too-man-i-goo-yah) is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States, with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421.2 m). [1] It is in East–Central California, in the Sierra Nevada, on the boundary between California's Inyo and Tulare counties, and 84.6 miles (136.2 km) [8] west-northwest of North America's lowest topographic point, Badwater Basin in Death ...
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 .
San Gorgonio Mountain. San Gorgonio Mountain, also known locally as Mount San Gorgonio, or Old Greyback, is the highest peak in Southern California and the Transverse Ranges at 11,503 feet (3,506 m). It is in the San Bernardino Mountains, 27 miles (43 km) east of the city of San Bernardino and 12 miles (19 km) north-northeast of San Gorgonio Pass.
White Mountain Peak (or simply White Mountain), at 14,252 feet (4,344 m), is the highest peak in the White Mountains of California, the highest peak in Mono County, and the third highest peak in the state after Mount Whitney and Mount Williamson. In spite of its name, the summit block of the peak has large swaths of very dark and colorful ...
Central California. Range coordinates. 36°22′10.844″N 120°38′39.609″W / 36.36967889°N 120.64433583°W / 36.36967889; -120.64433583. Topo map. USGS San Benito Mountain. The Diablo Range is a mountain range in the California Coast Ranges subdivision of the Pacific Coast Ranges in northern California, United States.
Aerial view of the White Mountains, looking north over the Pellisier Flats to Montgomery and Boundary Peaks at the end of the range. The highest point in the range is White Mountain Peak, which at 14,252 ft (4,344 m) is the third-highest summit in California. This peak is actually an extinct volcano rising about 1,600 ft (490 m) above the ...