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The Laguna Mountains are a popular recreation area in Cleveland National Forest.They comprise the southernmost crest along the Pacific Crest Trail. [3]Their relatively high altitude induces the highest snowfall in San Diego County making it one of the few local places to offer snow activities like sledding and snowshoeing.
The Cuyamaca Mountains (Kumeyaay: ‘Ekwiiyemak), [2] locally the Cuyamacas, are a mountain range of the Peninsular Ranges in San Diego County, California. [1] The mountain range runs roughly northwest to southeast. The Laguna Mountains are directly adjacent to the east, with Palomar Mountain and Hot Springs Mountain more distant to the north.
Urban Southern California occupies the valleys between the Santa Susana Mountains, Santa Monica Mountains and San Gabriel Mountains, which range from the Pacific Coast, eastward over 100 miles (160 km), to the San Bernardino Mountains, north of San Bernardino. The highest point of the range is Mount San Gorgonio at 11,499 feet (3,505 m).
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the U.S. State of California. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Santa Rosa Mountains (California) (13 P) Pages in category "Mountain ranges of San Diego County, California" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
At 6,512 feet (1,985 m), its summit is the second highest point in San Diego County. Cuyamaca Peak is located roughly 40 miles (64 km) from the Pacific Ocean, within Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. It is east of the city of San Diego and southwest of Julian.
Laguna Summit is a highway pass through the Cuyamaca Mountains of southeastern San Diego County, California, traversed by Interstate 8 at an altitude of 4,055 feet (1,236 m). Of the four 4,000 feet (1,200 m) highway summits eastward of San Diego, the Laguna Summit is the second.
The Lilac Fire was first reported around 1:20 a.m. near Old Highway 395 in Bonsall, Calif., 46 miles north of San Diego, according to the San Diego County Fire Department.