- Source: Bare Mountain Range (Nevada)
The Bare Mountain Range is a mountain range in southern Nye County, Nevada, in the United States. Bare Mountain and Wildcat Peak are the high points of the range.
Geography
The Bare Mountain Range is a short range, about 9 miles (14 km) long, trending northwest by southeast. The north end of the range borders Beatty on the Amargosa River. The Bullfrog Hills lie to the northwest of Beatty. Yucca Mountain lies about nine miles to the east across Crater Flat. The range borders the central and northeast Amargosa Desert, which also trends northwest by southeast. U.S. Route 95 runs in the Amargosa Valley along the south edge of the range and turns at Beatty to continue north through Oasis Valley.
The highest peak of the range is Bare Mountain, of the same name, at 6,273 feet (1,912 m). In the southeast of the range, Wildcat Peak rises to 5,052 feet (1,540 m)
Bare Mountain Range was descriptively named for the bare summits.
See also
Amargosa toad
References
External links
Bare Mountain region- features, photographs, placenames
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- Bare Mountain Range (Nevada)
- List of mountain ranges of Nevada
- Bare Mountain
- Great Basin Desert
- Beatty, Nevada
- Greenhorn Mountains
- Arrow Canyon Range
- Nellis Air Force Base Complex
- Bullfrog Hills
- Topography of Spain
