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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:
The following is a list of mountain passes and gaps in California.California is geographically diverse with numerous roads and railways traversing within its borders. In the middle of the U.S. state lies the California Central Valley, bounded by the coastal mountain ranges in the west, the Sierra Nevada to the east, the Cascade Range in the north and the Tehachapi Mountains in the south.
To the south lies the Santa Clara River Valley into which various creeks drain starting in the mountains into the Santa Clara River. The range reaches an elevation of 6,738 feet (2,054 m) at Cobblestone Mountain , [ 3 ] about 14 mi (23 km) north-northeast of Fillmore and about 16 mi (26 km) northwest of Castaic .
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. The following list comprises the mountain ranges of U.S. State of California designated by the United States Board on Geographic Names and cataloged in the Geographic Names Information System .
This is a list of 58 counties of the U.S. State of California by their points of highest elevation. 6 of the 50 highest county high points in the United States are in California. Mount Whitney, located in Inyo and Tulare counties, is the highest point in California as well as the highest point in the contiguous United States at 14,505 feet ...
Mount Whitney is the highest summit of the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States.. This is a complete list of the 12 summits with elevation higher than 14,000 feet (4,267 m) in the U.S. state of California, with at least 300 feet (91.44 meters) of topographic prominence.
During the California Gold Rush, Pilot Knob was the landmark on the Southern Emigrant Trail for what was called Emigrant Crossing, the center crossing of three major crossings of the Colorado River in the vicinity of what is now Yuma, Arizona. [5] The Butterfield Overland Mail located its Pilot Knob Station, near the river and the Knob in 1858.
The next two peaks — Modjeska, 5,496 feet (1,675 m); and Santiago, 5,689 feet (1,734 m), [3] the highest summit in the range — form Saddleback Ridge. Saddleback, located approximately 20 mi (32 km) east of Santa Ana, is visible from much of Southern California. San Mateo Canyon Wilderness, southern Santa Ana Mountains, April 2007.