The Santa Rosa Range is a
mountain range
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...
in
Humboldt County,
Nevada
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,
United States
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. Most of the range is included within the
Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. The highest peaks in the range are
Granite Peak (9732 feet, 2966 m) and Santa Rosa Peak (9701 feet, 2957 m). The range extends for approximately 75 miles (120 km) north from
Winnemucca Mountain
Winnemucca Mountain is a mountain near the small city of Winnemucca in Humboldt County, Nevada, United States. It is considered to be the southernmost named summit of the Santa Rosa Range. A paved road ascends to radio facilities on the summit. ...
near
Winnemucca through eastern
Humboldt County to the border with
Oregon
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. The upper elevations of the southern section of the range are protected as the
Santa Rosa-Paradise Peak Wilderness Area.
The eastern side of the range is a ranching district around
Paradise Valley, drained by the
Little Humboldt River
The Little Humboldt River is a tributary of the Humboldt River, approximately long, in northern Nevada in the western United States. It is an intermittent stream draining a rugged area on the edge of the Owyhee Desert in the Great Basin.
It ri ...
, a tributary of the Humboldt. The
Quinn River
The Quinn River, once known as the Queen River, is an intermittent river, approximately long, in the desert of northwestern Nevada in the United States. It drains an enclosed basin inside the larger Great Basin.
It rises in northeastern Humbold ...
Valley is west of the range. The
Owyhee Desert
The Owyhee Desert ecoregion, within the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, is in the Northwestern United States. The Owyhee Uplands Byway passes through the desert.
Geography
An arid region of canyons, volcanic rock, sagebrush and grass makes up ...
on the edge of the
Columbia Plateau
The Columbia Plateau is a geologic and geographic region that lies across parts of the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. It is a wide flood basalt plateau between the Cascade Range and the Rocky Mountains, cut through by the Columbia ...
extends northeast from the north end of the range.
The range was so named on account of wild roses which grow in the area.
References
Range, Santa Rosa
Mountain ranges of the Great Basin
Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest
Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of Humboldt County, Nevada
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