Bristol Mountains
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| Bristol Mountains | |
| Mountain Range | |
 Southeast end of Bristol Mountains as seen from Amboy Crater. The town of Amboy can be seen on the right side of the image
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| Country | United States |
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| State | California |
| Region | Mojave Desert |
| District | San Bernardino County |
| Coordinates | 34°50′56.954″N 116°3′18.033″W / 34.84915389°N 116.05500917°W |
| Highest point | |
| - elevation | 1,030 m (3,379 ft) |
| Timezone | Pacific (UTC-8) |
| - summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) |
| Topo map | USGS East of Broadwell Lake |
  Location of the Bristol Mountains in California [1]
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The Bristol Mountains are found in the Mojave Desert of California, USA, just west of Mojave National Preserve. The range, which reaches an elevation of 3,874 feet (1,181 m), is located in San Bernardino County, and crosses Interstate 40 between Ludlow and the Granite Mountains. At the southern end of the range lies the town of Amboy, the Amboy Crater, and Bristol Dry Lake.
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[edit] Bristol Mountains Wilderness Area
Most of the Bristol Mountains is in a Federally designated Wilderness and lies within either the Bristol Mountains Wilderness Area or the Kelso Dunes Wilderness Area.[2][3]
The remainder of the range is designated for Wilderness status in the proposed California Desert Protection Act of 2010.[4][5]
[edit] References
- BLM Bristol Mountains Wilderness Area Map
- Bristol Mountains Wilderness photographs
- BLM Kelso Dunes Wilderness Area Map
- Kelso Dunes Wilderness photographs
[edit] See also
- Cady Mountains
- Category: Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert
- Category: Protected areas of the Mojave Desert
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Bristol Mountains". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:239689. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
- ^ http://www.blm.gov/ca/pa/wilderness/wa/areas/bristol_mountains.html . accessed 6/20/2010
- ^ http://www.blm.gov/ca/pa/wilderness/wa/areas/kelso_dunes.html . accessed 6/20/2010
- ^ http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=14d49cae-7398-4d7e-8693-40ed19b44299
- ^ http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=4150f59f-238b-41d6-9289-f92fd1da6a85
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