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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:
Comparison table of California ski resorts Resort name Nearest city Peak elevation (ft) Base elevation (ft) Vertical drop Skiable acreage Total trails Total lifts Avg annual snowfall Date statistics updated Palisades Tahoe: Olympic Valley: 9,050 6,200 2,850 3,600 170 29 450" March 2020 [1] Mammoth Mountain: Mammoth Lakes: 11,053 7,953 3,100 ...
California: Soda Springs: 411.6 inches (1,045 cm) [8] 6,885 feet (2,099 m) Sugar Bowl Ski Resort 2.5 miles east of Soda Springs, 500 inches (1,300 cm) annually. [9] Lake Helen at Mount Lassen [10] and Kalmia Lake in the Trinity Alps are estimated to receive 600-700 inches of snow per year.
Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument is a national monument of the United States comprising 344,476 acres (139,404 ha) of the California Coast Ranges in Napa, Yolo, Solano, Lake, Colusa, Glenn and Mendocino counties in northern California. [1] Cache Creek Wilderness is located within the monument.
The highest point on the mountain, known as Snow Mountain East, is the highest point in both Colusa and Lake counties. Snow Mountain West, a subsidiary peak also near the county line, [4] is 0.58 miles (0.93 km) to the southwest at an elevation of 7,043 feet (2,147 m).
The Snow Mountain Wilderness is a 60,076-acre (243.12 km 2) federally designated wilderness area located 65 miles (105 km) north of Santa Rosa, California, USA in the Mendocino National Forest. The U.S. Congress passed the California Wilderness Act of 1984 which created 23 new wilderness areas including Snow Mountain. [ 1 ]
Santiago Peak is the southern mountain of the Saddleback landform in Orange County and Riverside County, California. It is the highest and most prominent peak of both the Santa Ana Mountains and Orange County. The peak is named for Santiago Creek, which begins on its southwestern slope. [1] During most winters, snow falls at least once on the peak.
Mount Saint Helena (Wappo: Kanamota, "Human Mountain") [4] is a peak in the Mayacamas Mountains with flanks in Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties of California.Composed of uplifted volcanic rocks from the Clear Lake Volcanic Field, it is one of the few mountains in the San Francisco Bay Area to receive any snowfall during the winter.