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The Golden Gate Range is a mountain range in northwest
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, and eastern Nye counties
Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. N ...
.''Timpaute Range, Nevada,'' 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1988''Quinn Canyon Range, Nevada,'' 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1988 The range trends north-northeast between the Garden Valley to the west and the Coal Valley to the east. The southern end of the range in Lincoln County contains the highest peaks whereas the northern portion exists as a broken string of lower hills separated by water gaps. The northeast end of the range is bounded by the White River Valley to the east. The Worthington Mountains, the
Quinn Canyon Range The Quinn Canyon Range is a remote group of mountains in northeastern Nye County, and western Lincoln County in central Nevada in the western United States. Adaven is the only settlement in the mountains, now abandoned. It is closely associated ...
and the
Grant Range The Grant Range is a mountain chain in east-central Nevada in the western United States. It runs for approximately 30 miles (50 km) in a generally north-south direction in northeastern Nye County. It is located south of the Horse Range and ...
lie to the west and northwest with the
Seaman Range The Seaman Range is a 30-mile (48 km) long mountain range in Lincoln and Nye counties, Nevada, in the western United States. The range lies at the south perimeter of the large north-trending White River Valley, along with Coal Valley to it ...
to the east and Timpahute Range and
Mount Irish Range The Mount Irish Range is a mountain range in Lincoln County, Nevada, Lincoln County, Nevada. The range is bounded by the Coal Valley to the north, the Pahranagat Valley to the east, the Tikaboo Valley to the southwest and the Wild Horse Valley to ...
to the south. The Golden Gate Range is within the
Basin and Range National Monument Basin and Range National Monument is a national monument of the United States spanning approximately of remote, undeveloped mountains and valleys in Lincoln and Nye counties in southeastern Nevada.
designated by President
Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the U ...
in 2015.


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Mountain ranges of Lincoln County, Nevada Mountain ranges of Nevada {{LincolnCountyNV-geo-stub