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The Pacific Coast Ranges (officially gazetted as the Pacific Mountain System [1] in the United States; French: chaînes côtières du Pacifique; Spanish: cadena costera del Pacífico) [2] are the series of mountain ranges that stretch along the West Coast of North America from Alaska south to Northern and Central Mexico.
The mountain range's name derives from its proximity to the sea coast, and it is often referred to as the Coast Range. [2] The range includes volcanic and non-volcanic mountains and the extensive ice fields of the Pacific and Boundary Ranges , and the northern end of the volcanic system known as the Cascade Volcanoes .
The Northern Coast Ranges are a section of the California Coast Ranges. They run parallel to the Pacific Coast from the North San Francisco Bay Area to coastal Del Norte County. The Klamath Mountains, including the Siskiyou Mountains sub-range, lie to the north and northeast. The Southern Coast Ranges lie to the south.
The Oregon Coast Range is divided into three separate sections: North, Central, and South. In the south is the oldest portion of the range with formation beginning in the Paleocene era with the Roseburg volcanics, while the newest section is the northernmost portion formed first with the Siletz River Volcanics. [ 1 ]
Coast Range, Coastal Range or Coast Mountains may refer to: Pacific Coast Ranges of North America California Coast Ranges; Coast Mountains, often referred to as the Coast Range, a major mountain range in British Columbia, Alaska and Yukon; Olympic Mountains in Washington; Oregon Coast Range; Willapa Hills in Washington, an extension of the ...
The coastal side of the range rises directly from the shoreline, with oceanfront ridges rising directly 4,000 to 5,000 feet (1,200 to 1,500 m) to the crest of the coastal range. The crest of the range is never more than 11 miles (18 km) from the coast. [2]: 11 Cone Peak is the steepest coastal elevation in the contiguous United States, [3 ...
The Central Oregon Coast Range is the middle section of the Oregon Coast Range, in the Pacific Coast Ranges physiographic region, and located in the west-central portion of the state of Oregon, United States roughly between the Salmon River and the Umpqua River and the Willamette Valley and the Pacific Ocean.
The Coast Range Arc lies along the western margin of the North American Plate in the Pacific Northwest of western North America. Although taking its name from the Coast Mountains , this term is a geologic grouping rather than a geographic one, and the Coast Range Arc extended south into the High Cascades of the Cascade Range , past the Fraser ...