Nopah Range

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 reaches 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).
The South Nopah Range Wilderness includes 17,059 acres of lower elevation foothills of the range.South Nopah Range Wilderness
- Wilderness Connect

Gallery

File:Looking South into The South Nopah Range WA.jpg, Looking south into the South Nopah Range Wilderness Area, Inyo County, California (2017)
File:One Mile North of the Old Spanish Trail highway in Inyo County, California.jpg, Looking at the Nopah Range Wilderness Area from about one mile north of the roadway (2019)
File:Spanish Trail Marker Looks Over the Countryside of Inyo County, California.jpg, These granite markers appear here and there to mark what used to be the Old Spanish Trail (2019)
File:Limestone Cliff Nopah Range Wilderness Area.jpg, These craggy looking cliffs might appear to be volcanic but they are actually weathered limestone (2019)
File:Quartzite boulder one mile north of Emigrant Pass from the Old Spanish Trail Highway in Inyo, County California.jpg, Red quartzite boulders at a location north of Emigrant Pass (2019)
File:Road Cut in the Nopah Range Near Emigrant Pass that Yields Partial Trilobites.jpg, This road cut near Emigrant Pass has been hunted for decades for trilobites (2017)
File:At the Road Cut Along The Old Spanish Trail Highway in Inyo County, California near Emigrant Pass.jpg, Trilobite hunting area next to the roadway has good access and easy parking (2017)
File:Hunting Trilobites in Shale alongside the Old Spanish Trail Highway in the Nopah Range, Inyo County, California.jpg, Misting or water bottle needed to reveal partial trilobites (2017)
File:Partial trilobite from a roadcut in the Nopah Range Alongside The Old Spanish Highway in Inyo County.jpg, This site provides mostly partial trilobites (2017)
File:California Route 127 outside Nopah Range.JPG, Nopah Range, near California State Route 127
File:Looking east from Emigrant Pass, Nopah Range, Inyo County, California.jpg, A gravel hauler works the grade up to the top of Emigrant Pass in the Nopah Range
File:Fractured sandstone in the Nopah Range.jpg, Fractured sandstone in the North Nopah Wilderness Area
File:Nopah Range & Mojave Desert.webm

See also

* Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert
* Kingston Peak

References

*{{cite book, first=Stuart, last=Allan, title=California Road and Recreation Atlas, year=2005, publisher=Benchmark Maps, pages=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