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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 .
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The remaining road past Silverwood Lake is mountainous, narrow, and twisting, and not a prime mountain route to the San Bernardino Mountain resorts. The entire segment from Interstate 15 to the eastern terminus of State Route 138 at Mount Anderson Junction is known as the El Cajon-Skyline Forest Highway.
From 1950 to 1953, a portion of SR 178 in Lake Isabella was rerouted around the Isabella Auxiliary Dam. The dam was built over the old route and parts of it are inundated by Isabella Lake. The new route goes over the dam's southern abutment and along the shoreline of Isabella Lake toward Onyx. In 1964, all of the California routes were renumbered.
Panoramic views of San Bernardino from California State Route 18. Roadside view of snow-capped mountains from California State Route 18 just east of Rte 189 turnoff to Arrowhead Lake. The constructed portion of Route 18 begins at State Route 210 and quickly enters the San Bernardino Mountains as a four-lane expressway.
Emigrant Wilderness outline map. The Emigrant Wilderness of Stanislaus National Forest is a formally designated wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada. It is bordered by Yosemite National Park on the south, the Toiyabe National Forest and the Hoover Wilderness on the east, and State Route 108 over Sonora Pass on the north. It is an elongated area ...
Precipitation runoff from the mountain's east slope drains into Glacier Creek which is a tributary of the Big Thompson River, and the west slope drains to Grand Lake via North Inlet. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 1,850 feet (560 meters) above Lake Powell in 0.62 mile (1 km) and 2,725 feet (831 meters) above Black Lake in ...
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 ]