The San Francisco Mountains are a mountain range located in north‑central

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, United States that extend into central-south

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The range is connected in the northeast to the

Cricket Mountains The Cricket Mountains are a long mountain range located in central-south Millard County, Utah, United States, on the east border of Sevier Lake, in the Great Basin Desert. The southwestern Cricket Mountains merge southwest into the smaller San F ...

with the same

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, southwest by northeast lineage. Both ranges form the eastern border of the ''

Wah Wah Valley Wah Wah Valley is an endorheic (internal drainage) valley within the Basin and Range of west-central Utah, United States. Description The valley is bound by the Wah Wah Mountains to the west and south and the San Francisco Mountains to the east. ...

Hardpan'' and the usually dry

Sevier Lake Sevier Lake is an intermittent and endorheic lake which lies in the lowest part of the Sevier Desert, Millard County, Utah. Like Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake, it is a remnant of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville. Sevier Lake is fed primarily by the B ...

which both have the same northeasterly trendline. The region is in the southwest of the

Sevier Desert The Sevier Desert is a large arid section of central-west Utah, United States, and is located in the southeast of the Great Basin. It is bordered by deserts north, west, and south; its east border is along the mountain range and valley sequences ...

, and the southwest

Great Basin Desert The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range. The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great Basin shrub steppe defined by the World Wildlife Fund, and the Central Basin a ...

. The range is linear, with a high peaks section in the southwest; the northeast lower elevation foothills merge into the Cricket Mountains. A smaller, almost circular mountain sub-range is attached on the southeast, the Beaver Lake Mountains, which is also adjacent to the town of

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; the Beaver River flows north through Milford Valley and enters the desert region east of the mountain ranges. (When flowing above ground, the river intersects with the

Sevier River The Sevier River (pronounced "severe") is a -long river in the Great Basin of southwestern Utah in the United States. Originating west of Bryce Canyon National Park, the river flows north through a chain of high farming valleys and steep canyons ...

, to the north, and before entering Sevier Lake.) A ridgeline of the range occurs in the south, and is slightly west of center; and south of the range's center and on the ridgeline is the range highpoint, Frisco Peak, . The mountains derive their name indirectly from the

Domínguez–Escalante expedition The Domínguez–Escalante Expedition was a Spanish Empire, Spanish journey of Spanish colonization of the Americas, exploration conducted in 1776 by two Franciscan priests, Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, to find an overl ...

of 1776.

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is the founder of the

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of the

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and the

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of wildlife.

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Frisco Peak, summitpost (coordinates)
Mountain ranges of Beaver County, Utah Mountain ranges of Millard County, Utah Mountain ranges of the Great Basin Mountain ranges of Utah {{Utah-geo-stub

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