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It is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places as a sacred place to Native American tribes in Southern Nevada. [11] Spirit Mountain is the highest point in the Spirit Mountain Wilderness [2] [12] and is the highest point in the Newberry Mountains with the summit peak at 5,639 feet (1,719 m).
The monument surrounds excluded areas around the towns of Searchlight, Palm Gardens and Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada. [9] The monument includes all of the Spirit Mountain, South McCullough, Wee Thump Joshua Tree, Nellis Wash, and Bridge Canyon wilderness areas and a portion of Ireteba Peaks Wilderness. [10]
Spirit Mountain Wilderness Area is a 33,518-acre (13,564 ha) wilderness area located in the Newberry Mountains in Clark County, Nevada, 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Laughlin. [2] Spirit Mountain lies within the area. [3] [4] It is managed by the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service.
President Biden designated two new national monuments on Tuesday: the Spirit Mountain area in southern Nevada and Castner Range in West Texas. The Avi Kwa Ame National Monument will span about ...
The Grapevine Canyon Petroglyphs are located in Grapevine Canyon on Spirit Mountain near Laughlin, Nevada, and are listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places. [1] The area is also known as Christmas Tree Pass. [2]
The range is Nevada's southernmost named mountain range, and lies to the northwest of the town of Laughlin and west of Lake Mohave. The Newberry Mountains connect with the Eldorado Mountains and The Highland Mountains. [4] The highest point in the range is Spirit Mountain at 5,642 feet (1,720 m). Native Americans held the range to be sacred. [5]
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.
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