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The Whitewater River in the dry fall of 2020, looking upstream from Date Palm Drive in Cathedral City toward Banning Pass and the Palm Springs International Airport with a plane on final approach. The Whitewater River is a small permanent stream in western Riverside County, California, with some upstream tributaries in southwestern San ...
The Mount San Jacinto State Park encompasses the weathered granite summit of Mount San Jacinto, which at 10,834 feet (3,302 m) above sea level [3] makes this the second highest peak and mountain range in Southern California. It is accessible by the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway and lies on the Pacific Crest Trail.
The range was a frequent subject for Palm Springs artists Carl Eytel (1862–1925) and Paul Grimm (1892–1974). Hollywood film directors have used the mountains to shoot film scenes. In Frank Capra's 1937 film, Lost Horizon, the Tahquitz Falls in Tahquitz Canyon was used as a scene. [7] Today, the range is a destination for outdoor recreation.
The Yellowstone River flows through the valley and is noted for world-class fly fishing in the river and nearby spring creeks such as DePuy Spring Creek. The valley also features several natural hot springs, including Chico Hot Springs near Emigrant, Montana , La Duke Hot Springs near Gardiner, and Hunter's Hot Springs near Livingston.
The river is part of the Columbia River drainage basin, as the Clark Fork is a tributary of the Pend Oreille River, a Columbia River tributary. With a drainage basin extending over 8,795 square miles (22,780 km 2 ) and an average discharge of 11,380 cubic feet per second (322 m 3 /s), the Flathead is the largest tributary of the Clark Fork and ...
It flows E, SE, and E away from the mountains, past Simms, Sun River, and Vaughn and joins the Missouri at Great Falls. The water of the river is used extensively for irrigation, through the Sun River Project of the United States Bureau of Reclamation. The irrigation area covers approximately 92,000 acres (372 km 2).
The Madison River is widely regarded as one of the finest trout fisheries in the world. [6] [7] [8] It is classified as a blue ribbon fishery in Montana, where fly fisherman target brown trout, rainbow trout, cutthroat trout, and mountain whitefish. [9] Grizzly bears and wolves reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park roam the river valley. [10]