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Great Basin National Park is a national park of the United States located in White Pine County in east-central Nevada, near the Utah border, established in 1986. The park is most commonly entered by way of Nevada State Route 488 , which is connected to U.S. Routes 6 and 50 by Nevada State Route 487 via the small town of Baker , the closest ...
The summit elevation of 13,065 feet (3,982 m) makes it the second-highest peak in Nevada, just behind Boundary Peak. [4] With a topographic prominence of 7,563 feet (2,305 m), Wheeler Peak is the most topographically prominent peak in White Pine County and the second-most prominent peak in Nevada, just behind Mount Charleston . [ 5 ]
Wheeler Peak, elevation 13,065 feet (3,982 m), in Great Basin National Park. Timber Creek in the Schell Creek Range. White Pine County is a largely rural, mountain county along the central eastern boundary of the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,080. [1] Its county seat is Ely. [2]
Death Valley National Park, notorious for its below sea level desert, also has soaring mountains, including Telescope Peak, its highest. This is a list of United States National Parks by elevation. Most of America's national parks are located in mountainous areas. Even among those located close to the ocean, not all are flat.
Great Basin National Park spans 77,000 acres of the much larger Great Basin, which stretches from Utah to California and up to Oregon. The park boasts one of the highest points in Nevada, ...
The south-central portion of the range is included within Great Basin National Park, with most of the remainder included within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. The range reaches a maximum elevation of 13,065 feet (3,982 m) at the summit of Wheeler Peak , the tallest independent mountain within Nevada and the second highest point within ...
Great Basin’s remote location makes it one of the least visited national parks in America. But it’s also what makes it so special.
Decades before this Great Lakes site became a national park in 2000, severe pollution ravaged the Cuyahoga River – so much so that the river caught on fire a dozen times. In 1969, the river ...