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  2. List of mountain peaks of California - Wikipedia

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    Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the U.S. State of California. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:

  3. List of California 14,000-foot summits - Wikipedia

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    Mount Whitney is the highest summit of the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States.. This is a complete list of the 12 summits with elevation higher than 14,000 feet (4,267 m) in the U.S. state of California, with at least 300 feet (91.44 meters) of topographic prominence.

  4. Mountain High - Wikipedia

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    Mountain High now operates the North Resort as a ski school, tubing and snow play area to relieve congestion at the West Resort, but has not yet installed snowmaking equipment there. Table Mountain has been used previously as a U.S. Geologic Survey site and a Smithsonian Museum site. Mountain High was sold to Oaktree Capital Management in 1997. [4]

  5. Mount Whitney - Wikipedia

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    Mount Whitney (Paiute: Too-man-i-goo-yah [6] or Too-man-go-yah [7]) is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States, with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m). [1] It is in East–Central California, in the Sierra Nevada, on the boundary between California's Inyo and Tulare counties, and 84.6 miles (136.2 km) [8] west-northwest of North America's lowest topographic point, Badwater ...

  6. Geography of California - Wikipedia

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    Map of California topography and geomorphic provinces California's major mountain ranges. California is a U.S. state on the western coast of North America.Covering an area of 163,696 sq mi (423,970 km 2), California is among the most geographically diverse states.

  7. List of California county high points - Wikipedia

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    Locations of the highest point in each county, with color corresponding to height. This is a list of 58 counties of the U.S. State of California by their points of highest elevation . 6 of the 50 highest county high points in the United States are in California.

  8. List of mountain ranges of California - Wikipedia

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    Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. The following list comprises the mountain ranges of U.S. State of California designated by the United States Board on Geographic Names and cataloged in the Geographic Names Information System .

  9. San Gorgonio Mountain - Wikipedia

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    San Gorgonio Mountain, also known locally as Mount San Gorgonio, or Old Greyback, is the highest peak in Southern California and the Transverse Ranges at 11,503 feet (3,506 m). It is in the San Bernardino Mountains , 27 miles (43 km) east of the city of San Bernardino and 12 miles (19 km) north-northeast of San Gorgonio Pass .