List of Sierra Nevada topics
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This is a list of Sierra Nevada topics, about the Sierra Nevada of California, USA. Please see Sierra Nevada for alternative meanings. See also: List of books about the Sierra Nevada for further reading.
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[edit] Principal Mountains
List of mountains over 14,000 ft (4250 m) with 300 ft (90 m) of prominence:[1]
- Mount Whitney 14,505 ft (4421 m)
- Mount Williamson 14,403 ft (4390 m)
- North Palisade 14,242 ft (4341 m)
- Mount Sill 14,153 ft (4314 m)
- Mount Russell 14,094 ft (4296 m)
- Split Mountain 14,064 ft (4286 m)
- Mount Langley 14,025 ft (4280 m)
- Mount Tyndall 14,019 ft (4273 m)
- Middle Palisade 14,012 ft (4271 m)
- Mount Muir 14,012 ft (4271 m)
Other notable peaks:
- Mount Baxter
- Black Kaweah
- Castle Peak
- Cathedral Peak
- El Capitan
- Mount Conness
- Mount Dana
- Mount Darwin
- Mount Davis
- Fresno Dome
- Mount Gibbs
- Half Dome
- Mount Hopkins
- Mount Humphreys
- Lembert Dome
- Liberty Cap
- Mount Lyell
- Maggies Peak
- Mammoth Mountain
- Matterhorn Peak
- The Minarets
- Mount Morgan
- Mount Morrison
- Pyramid Peak
- Red Kaweah
- Red Slate Mountain
- Mount Ritter
- Thunderbolt Peak
- Mount Tom
[edit] Subranges
- Carson Range
- Cathedral Range
- Clark Range
- Crystal Range
- Great Western Divide
- Kaweah Peaks Ridge
- Palisades
- Ritter Range
- Sherwin Range
[edit] Counties in the Sierra
- Alpine County, California
- Amador County, California
- Butte County, California
- Calaveras County, California
- El Dorado County, California
- Fresno County, California
- Inyo County, California
- Kern County, California
- Madera County, California
- Mariposa County, California
- Mono County, California
- Nevada County, California
- Placer County, California
- Plumas County, California
- Sierra County, California
- Tulare County, California
- Tuolumne County, California
- Yuba County, California
The Carson Range (often considered part of the Sierra) extends into Nevada:
[edit] Principal rivers
- American River
- Cosumnes River
- Feather River
- Kern River
- Kings River
- Merced River
- Mokelumne River
- Sacramento River
- San Joaquin River
- Stanislaus River
- Truckee River
- Tuolumne River
- Yuba River
[edit] Prominent Lakes
- Lake Tahoe
- Beardsley Lake
- Cherry Lake
- Mono Lake
- New Melones Lake
- Pinecrest Lake
- Tioga Lake
- Tulloch Lake
- Twain Harte Lake
[edit] Other natural features
- Devil's Postpile
- Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne River
- Hetch Hetchy Valley
- Kings Canyon
- Long Valley Caldera
- Owens Valley
- San Joaquin Valley
- Sacramento Valley
- Tuolumne Meadows
- Yosemite Valley
See also: List of Yosemite waterfalls
[edit] National parks and monuments
North to south:
- Yosemite National Park
- Kings Canyon National Park
- Sequoia National Park
- Giant Sequoia National Monument
Eastern side of the Sierra:
[edit] National forests
- Eldorado National Forest
- Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
- Inyo National Forest
- Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit
- Plumas National Forest
- Sequoia National Forest
- Sierra National Forest
- Stanislaus National Forest
- Tahoe National Forest
[edit] Wilderness areas
A total of over 3,590,000 acres (14,500 km2) in 24 separate areas[2]
- Ansel Adams
- Bright Star
- Bucks Lake
- Carson-Iceberg
- Chimney Peak
- Desolation
- Dinkey Lakes
- Domeland
- Emigrant
- Golden Trout
- Granite Chief
- Hoover
- Jennie Lakes
- John Muir
- Kaiser
- Kiavah
- Kings Canyon National Park
- Mokelumne
- Monarch
- Owens Peak
- Sacatar Trail
- Sequoia National Park
- South Sierra
- Yosemite
[edit] State Parks
[edit] California
- Auburn State Recreation Area
- Bodie State Historic Park
- Burton Creek State Park
- Calaveras Big Trees State Park
- California State Mining and Mineral Museum Park Property
- Columbia State Historic Park
- D. L. Bliss State Park
- Donner Memorial State Park
- Ed Z'berg - Sugar Pine Point State Park
- Emerald Bay State Park
- Empire Mine State Historic Park
- Folsom Lake State Recreation Area
- Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park
- Grover Hot Springs State Park
- Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park
- Kings Beach State Recreation Area
- Lake Valley State Recreation Area
- Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park
- Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
- Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve
- Prairie City State Vehicular Recreation Area
- Railtown 1897 State Historic Park
- South Yuba River State Park
- Stone Lake Park Property
- Tahoe State Recreation Area
- Ward Creek Park Property
- Washoe Meadows State Park
- Wassama Round House State Historic Park
[edit] Nevada
- Dayton State Park
- Lake Tahoe-Nevada State Park
- Mormon Station State Historic Park
- Washoe Lake State Park
[edit] Trails and routes
[edit] Mountain passes
- Carson Pass
- Ebbetts Pass
- Forester Pass
- Fredonyer Pass
- Glen Pass
- Morgan Summit
- Muir Pass
- Pacific Grade Summit
- Sonora Pass
- Tehachapi Pass
- Tioga Pass
- Walker Pass
[edit]
- Ansel Adams
- Lafayette Bunnell
- Kit Carson
- Galen Clark
- Norman Clyde
- Francis P. Farquhar
- James Mason Hutchings
- Joseph LeConte
- Joseph Nisbet LeConte
- John Muir
- Jim Savage
- Carl Sharsmith
- Theodore Solomons
- Walter A. Starr, Jr.
- Chief Tenaya
- Snowshoe Thompson
- Josiah Whitney
[edit] Relevant list articles
- List of first ascents in the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
- List of Sierra Nevada wildfires
- List of Sierra Nevada road passes
- List of Yosemite destinations
- List of Yosemite waterfalls
[edit] References
- ^ "California 13,500-foot Peaks". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/list.aspx?lid=21320.
- ^ "Wilderness Areas in the Sierra Nevada". http://www.sierranevadaphotos.com/geography/wilderness_list.asp. Retrieved 11-07-2010.
