Nopah Range
Nopah Range | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 1,941 m (6,368 ft) |
Geography | |
location of Nopah Range in California[1] | |
Country | United States |
State | California |
District | Inyo County |
Range coordinates | 36°0′21.873″N 116°4′49.084″W / 36.00607583°N 116.08030111°WCoordinates: 36°0′21.873″N 116°4′49.084″W / 36.00607583°N 116.08030111°W |
Topo map | USGS Nopah Peak |
The Nopah Range is a mountain range located in Inyo County, California, United States, near the eastern border with Nevada.
Geography[]
The mountain range lies east of the adjacent Resting Spring Range, the Owlshead Mountains and lower Death Valley, and are north of the Kingston Range. The Amargosa River is to the west. They are located directly east of Shoshone, California, and the Chicago Valley, northeast of Tecopa, California, southwest of Pahrump, Nevada, and west of Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Nopah Range mountains reach an elevation of 6,395 feet above sea level at Nopah Peak, in the center of the range. The Nopah Range is approximately 26 miles long.
Wilderness[]
The Nopah Range Wilderness consists of 106,623 acres of the mountain range. Established in 1994 by the U.S. Congress, the wilderness area is managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Elevations range from 1,800 feet (548 m) to 6,395 feet (1949 m).[2] The South Nopah Range Wilderness includes 17,059 acres of lower elevation foothills of the range.[3]
Gallery[]
Looking south into the South Nopah Range Wilderness Area, Inyo County, California, 2017
Looking at the Nopah Range Wilderness Area from about one mile north of the roadway, 2019
These granite markers appear here and there to mark what used to be the Old Spanish Trail, 2019
These craggy looking cliffs might appear to be volcanic but they are actually weathered limestone, 2019
Beautiful looking red quartzite boulders at this location, north of Emigrant Pass, 2019
The road cut here near Emigrant Pass has been hunted for decades for trilobites, 2017
Trilobite hunting area next to the roadway has good access and easy parking, 2017
Misting or water bottle needed to reveal partial trilobites, 2017
This site provides mostly partial trilobites. Finding a full bug is very hard, 2017
Nopah Range, near California State Route 127
A gravel hauler works the grade up to the top of Emigrant Pass in the Nopah Range
Fractured sandstone in the North Nopah Wilderness Area
See also[]
- Category: Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert
References[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nopah Range. |
- ^ "Nopah Range". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
- ^ Nopah Range Wilderness - Wilderness Connect
- ^ South Nopah Range Wilderness - Wilderness Connect
- Allan, Stuart (2005). California Road and Recreation Atlas. . pp. 89 & 97. ISBN 0-929591-80-1.
External links[]
- Nopah Range Wilderness - BLM
- South Nopah Range Wilderness - BLM
- Mountain ranges of Inyo County, California
- Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert