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  2. Deserts of California - Wikipedia

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    There are three main deserts in California: the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Desert, and the Great Basin Desert. [5]: 408 The Mojave Desert is bounded by the Tehachapi Mountains on the northwest, the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains on the south, and extends eastward to California's borders with Arizona and Nevada; it also forms portions of northwest Arizona.

  3. List of mountain ranges of California - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. List of mountain peaks of California - Wikipedia

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    Of the most prominent summits of California, only Mount Whitney exceeds 3000 meters (9843 feet) of topographic prominence. Five peaks exceed 2000 meters (6562 feet), nine peaks are ultra-prominent summits with more than 1500 meters (4921 feet), and 35 peaks exceed 1000 meters (3281 feet) of topographic prominence.

  5. Granite Mountains (northern San Bernardino County, California)

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    The Granite Mountains is an overall, east-west trending mountain range in the Mojave Desert and northern San Bernardino County, California. It lies within Fort Irwin National Training Center , about 10 mi (16 km) north of Fort Irwin.

  6. Dead Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The Dead Mountains are a mountain range in the southeastern Mojave Desert, in San Bernardino County, California. [2] The range borders the tri-state intersection of Nevada, Arizona and California, and the Mohave Valley, with the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation bordering the range foothills on the east and northeast, in the three states.

  7. List of mountain ranges of the Sonoran Desert - Wikipedia

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    The Mojave Desert lies to the northwest; also in the northwest and west are mountain ranges of the lower elevation Colorado Desert, (west of the north-south section of the Colorado River of the Lower Colorado River Valley, in the southeast California deserts.) Mountain ranges on the Baja California Peninsula east of the cordillera spine ...

  8. How should Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National ... - AOL

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    How many people visit Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument? In fiscal year 2022, the BLM reported 662,445 visitors to the monument, according to the agency’s latest data.

  9. Kingston Range - Wikipedia

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    The Kingston Range, sometimes called the Kingston Mountains, is located in Inyo and San Bernardino counties in the Mojave Desert in eastern California. The range reaches a height of 7,323 feet (2,232 m) above sea level at Kingston Peak. The range is located southeast of the Nopah Range, and north of the Shadow Mountains and Interstate 15.