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The Kettle River Range encompasses an area of 2,700 square miles (7,000 km 2) and is a subrange of the Monashee Mountains, which in turn form part of the Columbia Mountains. [5] The range runs north to south, bordered on the east by the Kettle River and the Columbia River, and on the west by the Kettle River, the Curlew Valley and the San Poil ...
The Kettle River is a 281-kilometre (175 mi) tributary of the Columbia River, encompassing a 10,877-square-kilometre (4,200 sq mi) drainage basin, of which 8,228 square kilometres (3,177 sq mi) are in southern British Columbia, Canada and 2,649 square kilometres (1,023 sq mi) in northeastern Washington, US.
The highway travels across Whidbey Island, North Cascades National Park, the Okanagan Highland, the Kettle River Range, and the Selkirk Mountains. SR 20 connects several major north–south state highways, including Interstate 5 (I-5) in Burlington, US 97 through the Okanogan–Omak area, SR 21 in Republic, and US 395 from Kettle Falls to Colville.
The southern end of the Selkirk Mountains was the home of the last naturally occurring caribou herd in the contiguous United States, [5] the South Selkirk mountain caribou. The herd was cross boundary, spending some time in extreme northern Idaho , eastern Washington , and British Columbia , Canada.
Sherman Pass (el. 5575 ft./1699 m.) is a high mountain pass that crosses the Kettle River Range in the state of Washington. [1] It is the highest pass in the state maintained all year. [2] The pass is located on the Sherman Pass Scenic Byway which traverses the Colville National Forest. [3]
The forest encompasses a mountainous area consisting of the Kettle River and Selkirk mountain ranges, and the upper reaches of the Columbia River. The mountain ranges and forest are located mostly within the Columbia Mountains, which are part of the western foothills of the Rocky Mountains. The forest has a total area of 1.5 million acres.
Kettle River may refer to a location in North America: Rivers Kettle ... is the southernmost range of the Monashee Mountains; Communities. Kettle River, Minnesota ...
Other notable summits are Little White Mountain, Mount Baldy, Maple Mountain, Mount Moore, Mount Greyback, Mount Hull, and Mount Bonaparte which is the highest summit in the US portion of the Highland. The Okanagan Highland is the source of several rivers in addition to the Kettle and West Kettle, including the Sanpoil River.