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Mount Lemmon, with a summit elevation of 9,159 feet (2,792 m), [1] is the highest point in the Santa Catalina Mountains. It is located in the Coronado National Forest north of Tucson, Arizona , United States.
Mount Lemmon Ski Valley is a recreational ski area in the U.S. state of Arizona, and the southernmost ski destination in the continental United States. [1] Mount Lemmon Ski Valley is located on the slopes of Mount Lemmon in the Santa Catalina Mountains just north of Tucson, Arizona .
Mount Wrightson in the nearby Santa Rita Mountains has an elevation of 9,453 feet (2,881 m). It is the type locality of a species of Noctuidae or owlet moths (see List of butterflies and moths of Arizona) Mount Lemmon is named after Sara Lemmon, a plant collector and the first white woman to ascend the peak in 1881. [11]
Summerhaven is a popular tourist destination. Several small shops in Summerhaven attract visitors, including the Mount Lemmon General Store and The Cookie Cabin, which offers homemade cookies and pizzas. In the winter, residents from lower elevations travel to Summerhaven, when the Catalina Highway is open, to enjoy the snow. Also during the ...
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 Catalina Highway, officially the General Hitchcock Highway, is the popular name for a Forest Highway and scenic route located in Pima County in southern Arizona.Also known as the Sky Island Scenic Byway, the Mount Lemmon Highway and Arizona Forest Highway 39, the Catalina Highway is the only paved roadway providing access to the resort village of Summerhaven as well as various recreational ...
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.
Mount Lemmon Survey (MLS) is a part of the Catalina Sky Survey with observatory code G96. [2] MLS uses a 1.52 m (60 in) cassegrain reflector telescope (with 10560x10560-pixel camera at the f/1.6 prime focus, for a five square degree field of view) [3] operated by the Steward Observatory at Mount Lemmon Observatory, which is located at 2,791 meters (9,157 ft) in the Santa Catalina Mountains ...