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The Siskiyou Mountains are a coastal subrange of the Klamath Mountains, and located in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon in the United States.They extend in an arc for approximately 100 miles (160 km) from east of Crescent City, California, northeast along the north side of the Klamath River into Josephine and Jackson counties in Oregon.
Mount Ashland is the highest peak in the Siskiyou Mountains of southern Oregon. [2] It was named for the city of Ashland, located 8.6 miles (14 km) north of the mountain.The Siskiyou Mountains are a subrange of the Klamath Mountains in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon.
The Siskiyou Wilderness is a federal wilderness area designated by the passage of the California Wilderness Act of 1984. Originally, the land area was 153,000 acres (620 km 2 ) [ 1 ] The Northern California Wild Heritage Act of 2006 added 30,122 acres (121.90 km 2 ) for the current total of 182,802 acres (739.77 km 2 ).
Preston Peak (Karuk: keech'íihyan), [3] is a dominant feature of the Siskiyou Wilderness in the Klamath National Forest in northern California, U.S. [2] Many peaks in the wilderness rise to over 6,000 feet (1,800 m) but none come to within 500 feet (150 m) of approaching the height of Preston Peak.
Siskiyou Peak: 1156842: Clatskanie Hill Summit: 760 ft (230 m) Clatskanie Hill: 1156842: Clatsop Crest Summit ...
The Siskiyou Mountains form the watershed boundary between the Klamath and Rogue Rivers and are also a rough natural separator between Oregon and California. The summit on Interstate 5 is about 12 miles (19 km) south of Ashland, Oregon, 25 miles (40 km) north of Yreka, California, and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) east of the historical Siskiyou Pass, the most used mountain pass in the state. [2]
Mount Shasta (/ ˈ ʃ æ s t ə / SHASS-tə; Shasta: Waka-nunee-Tuki-wuki; [5] Karuk: Úytaahkoo) [6] is a potentially active [7] stratovolcano at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California. At an elevation of 14,179 ft (4,322 m), it is the second-highest peak in the Cascades and the fifth-highest in the state.
Mount Eddy is the highest peak of the Trinity Mountains, a mountain range of the Klamath Mountains System, located in Siskiyou County, and Trinity County in northern California. [4] The mountain is in the Mount Eddy RNA, a Research Natural Area on the Shasta–Trinity National Forest, a unit of the United States Forest Service. The mountain is ...