Alvord Mountain is a

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. The mountain was named for Charles Alvord, who prospected in the area of the mountain between 1860 and 1862. It is located 17.5 miles northeast of

Yermo, California Yermo (Spanish for "wilderness") is an unincorporated community in the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County, California. It is east of Barstow on Interstate 15, just south of the Calico Mountains. Its population was an estimated 1,750 in 20 ...

History

The Old Spanish Trail crossed Alvord Mountain at

Impassable Pass Impassable Pass is a gap in Alvord Mountain, in San Bernardino County, California. It is located just south and outside of the boundary fence of Fort Irwin National Training Center.Edward Leo Lyman, Overland Journey from Utah to California: Wago ...

, at the head of Spanish Canyon on its route between Bitter Spring and the

Mojave River The Mojave River is an intermittent river in the eastern San Bernardino Mountains and the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Most of its flow is underground, while its surface channels remain dry most of the time, ...

.Lyman, Edward Leo, The Overland Journey From Utah to California, Wagon Travel from the City of Saints to the City of Angels, University of Nevada Press, 2004.

References

Mountain ranges of Southern California Mountain ranges of San Bernardino County, California Old Spanish Trail (trade route) {{SanBernardinoCountyCA-geo-stub