Troy Peak is the highest
mountain in the
Grant Range in northeastern
Nye County,
Nevada,
United States.
It is the thirty-sixth highest mountain in Nevada. Troy Peak also ranks as the third-most
topographically prominent
In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...
peak in Nye County and the fourteenth-most prominent peak in the state.
The summit is located southwest of the city of
Ely Ely or ELY may refer to:
Places Ireland
* Éile, a medieval kingdom commonly anglicised Ely
* Ely Place, Dublin, a street
United Kingdom
* Ely, Cambridgeshire, a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England
** Ely Cathedral
Ely Cathedral, formal ...
, within the
Grant Range Wilderness
The Grant Range Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Grant Range of Nye County, in the central section of the state of Nevada in the western United States.
The Grant Range Wilderness encompasses an area of , and is administered by th ...
of the
Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
References
External links
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Mountains of Nevada
Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest
Mountains of Nye County, Nevada
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