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Mount Powell is a 13,364-foot-elevation (4,073 meter) mountain summit located on the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California, United States. [3] It is situated on the shared boundary of Kings Canyon National Park with John Muir Wilderness , and along the common border of Fresno County with Inyo County .
Gunsight Butte is an island that towers nearly 1,000 feet (300 m) above Lake Powell when the lake is full. This iconic landmark of the Lake Powell area is a butte composed primarily of Entrada Sandstone , similar to Padres Butte 3 miles (4.8 km) to the east-southeast, and Dominguez Butte 4 miles (6.4 km) to the southeast.
Golden Cathedral. Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (shortened to Glen Canyon NRA or GCNRA) is a national recreation area and conservation unit of the United States National Park Service that encompasses the area around Lake Powell and lower Cataract Canyon in Utah and Arizona, covering 1,254,429 acres (5,076.49 km 2) of mostly rugged high desert terrain.
In August 2010, Lake Powell was declared mussel free. [citation needed] Lake Powell introduced a mandatory boat inspection for each watercraft entering the reservoir beginning in June 2009. Effective June 29, 2009, every vessel entering Lake Powell must have a mussel certificate, although boat owners were allowed to self-certify.
The San Joaquin Hills are a low mountain range of the Peninsular Ranges System, located in coastal Orange County, California. [1]They extend in a northwest–southeast direction, starting in the northwest in Newport Beach at the southern edge of the Los Angeles Basin, and extending southeast to San Juan Capistrano.
The John Muir Wilderness is a wilderness area that extends along the crest of the Sierra Nevada of California for 90 miles (140 km), in the Inyo and Sierra National Forests. [2] Established in 1964 by the Wilderness Act and named for naturalist John Muir , it encompasses 652,793 acres (2,641.76 km 2 ). [ 1 ]
The East Bay Hills is a mountain range in the California Coast Ranges subdivision of the Pacific Coast Ranges in northern California, United States.They are the first range of mountains east of San Francisco Bay and stretch from the Carquinez Strait and San Pablo Bay in the north to Alameda Creek/Highway 84 in the south, crossing both Contra Costa and Alameda Counties. [3]
The mountain chain, forming the divide of the headwaters of Russian River and Clear Lake, was named for the Native American tribe on the west slope, probably a division of the Yuki tribe. According to Barrett (Pomo, p. 269), there was a Yukian Wappo village , Maiya'kma, one mile south of present day Calistoga .