The Lakeview Mountains are a range of low mountains encompassing approximately of land in western

Riverside County Riverside County is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,418,185, making it the fourth-most populous county in California and the 10th-most populous in the Unit ...

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, at the northern end of the

Peninsular Ranges The Peninsular Ranges (also called the Lower California province) are a group of mountain ranges that stretch from Southern California to the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula; they are part of the North American Coast Ranges, which ...

System.

Geography

The Lakeview Mountains are bordered: *on the south by State Highway 74 and the communities of

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and

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*on the east by the cities of

Hemet Hemet is a city in the San Jacinto Valley in Riverside County, California. It covers a total area of , about half of the valley, which it shares with the neighboring city of San Jacinto. The population was 89,833 at the 2020 census. The foundin ...

and San Jacinto *on the west by the

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and the community of Nuevo *on the north by the community of Lakeview and the San Jacinto River. The communities of Juniper Flats and MacLean Ranch are located within the Lakeview Mountains. The highest point in the Lakeview Mountains is at elevation above mean sea level. Mount Rudolph, a prominent feature at the northerly end of the range, rises to an elevation of . ;Petroglyph

Reinhardt Canyon Reinhardt Canyon is located in the Lakeview Mountains, just west of Hemet in Riverside County, California. The prehistoric petroglyph known as the Hemet Maze Stone, California Historical Landmark A California Historical Landmark (CHL) is ...

, on the easterly side of the range, is the home of the prehistoric

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known as the Hemet Maze Stone (

California Historical Landmark A California Historical Landmark (CHL) is a building, structure, site, or place in California that has been determined to have statewide historical landmark significance. Criteria Historical significance is determined by meeting at least one of ...

No. 557).

Flora

The vegetation of the Lakeview Mountains consists primarily of the

Coastal Sage Scrub Coastal sage scrub, also known as coastal scrub, CSS, or soft chaparral, is a low scrubland plant community of the California coastal sage and chaparral subecoregion, found in coastal California and northwestern coastal Baja California. It is w ...

and Montane chaparral and woodlands plant communities.

Geology

The Lakeview Mountains are the primary visible trace of the Lakeview Mountains

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, consisting primarily of

Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of th ...

tonalite Tonalite is an igneous, plutonic ( intrusive) rock, of felsic composition, with phaneritic (coarse-grained) texture. Feldspar is present as plagioclase (typically oligoclase or andesine) with alkali feldspar making up less than 10% of the total ...

References

External links

Geologic Map of Lakeview Mountains (pdf)
{{- Mountain ranges of Riverside County, California Peninsular Ranges Cretaceous California Mountain ranges of Southern California

Geography

Flora

Geology

See also

References

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