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There are 210 named mountain ranges in Arizona.This list also includes mountain ranges that are mostly in New Mexico and Sonora, Mexico, that extend into Arizona. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
The Preserves in August 2011. North Mountain and Shaw Butte are two adjacent mountains in the Phoenix Mountains Preserve in Phoenix, Arizona.The two mountains lie to the south of Thunderbird Road, north of Hatcher Road, east of North 19th Avenue, and west of North Cave Creek Road.
Arizona is also one of the Four Corners states and is diagonally adjacent to Colorado. Arizona has a total area of 113,998 square miles (295,253 km 2), making it the sixth largest U.S. state. [1] Of this area, just 0.3% consists of water, which makes Arizona the state with the second lowest percentage of water area (New Mexico is the lowest at ...
The Rincon Mountains are generally less rugged than the Santa Catalina Mountains and Santa Rita Mountains. The Rincon Mountains are also included in the Madrean sky island mountain ranges of southeast Arizona, extreme southwest New Mexico, and northern Sonora Mexico. Rincón is Spanish for corner, denoting the primary shape of the mountain range.
Hart Prairie is a popular hiking area and Nature Conservancy preserve located below the mountain's ski resort, Arizona Snowbowl. Humphreys Peak (latitude 35°20'47" N) and Agassiz Peak (latitude 35°19'33" N) are the two farthest south-lying mountain peaks in the contiguous United States that rise to a height of more than 12,000 feet (3,700 m ...
View of the Galiuro Mountains from the Deer Creek Trailhead. Galiuro Wilderness is a 76,317-acre (309 km 2) wilderness area encompassing the mid to upper slopes of the Galiuro Mountains. It is located within the Safford Ranger District of the Coronado National Forest in the American state of Arizona. [1]
Here, Scull Bridge Road borders the wilderness area on the left of the photo. The wilderness area includes the site of the Cañon de Chama land grant. A large area of northern New Mexico was included in the original Mexican land grant, but the U.S. Government confirmed only a small area along the river. The village cemetery is in the wilderness ...
The Muggins Mountains are a triangular block about 10 mi (16 km) on the SW and SE sides and 14 mi (23 km) on the north side. [2] The northern half of the mountain range has the two high peaks of the range: the unnamed northwest at 1,908 feet (582 m) and the northeast, Red Bluff Mountain at 1,905 feet (581 m). [1]