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Boundary Peak is the highest summit in the U.S. State of Nevada. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [Notes 1] of the U.S. State of Nevada. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level.
Alvin R. McLane, Silent Cordilleras: The Mountain Ranges of Nevada. (Reno: Camp Nevada Monograph #4, 1978) (Reno: Camp Nevada Monograph #4, 1978) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) , USGS
Mount Jefferson is the highest mountain in both the Toquima Range and Nye County in Nevada, United States.It is the sixth highest mountain in the state. [5] As the high point of a range which is well separated from other ranges by low basins, Mount Jefferson has a high topographic prominence of 5,861 feet (1,786 m).
Mount Charleston, including Charleston Peak (Nuvagantu, literally "where snow sits", in Southern Paiute [5] or Nüpakatütün in Shoshoni [6]) at 11,916 feet (3,632 m), [7] is the highest mountain in both the Spring Mountains and Clark County, in Nevada, United States. It is the eighth-highest mountain in the state. [8]
Bald Mountain (Lyon County, Nevada) Mount Baldy (Nevada) Bens Peak; Black Butte (Clark County, Nevada) Black Butte (South Virgin Mountains) Black Mountain (Nevada) Blue Diamond Hill; Boundary Peak (Nevada) Bridge Mountain (Nevada) Bunker Hill (Nevada)
The mountains in the McCullough Range lie mostly above the city of Henderson in the U.S. state of Nevada. The range has two distinct areas with the northern portion being primarily volcanic in origin, while the southern part of the range is primarily composed of metamorphic rock. McCullough Range was named after a pioneer settler. [3]
Closer view of Ruby Dome from the trail to the summit. Ruby Dome is the highest mountain in both the Ruby Mountains and Elko County, in Nevada, United States.It is the twenty-seventh-highest mountain in the state, [6] and also ranks as the thirteenth-most topographically prominent peak in the state. [7]
Mount Grant is both the highest and most topographically prominent mountain in both the Wassuk Range and Mineral County in Nevada, United States. It ranks thirteenth among the most topographically prominent peaks in the state. [3] The peak is located within the Hawthorne Army Depot, resulting in very limited public access. [4]
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