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Peak name Height ft m Phipps Peak: 9,238 2,816 Mount Tallac: 9,735 2,967 Mount Pluto: 8,610 2,624 Rubicon Peak: 9,183 2,799 Granite Chief: 9,010 2,746 Genoa Peak
Boundary Peak is the highest summit in the U.S. State of Nevada. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [Notes 1] of the U.S. State of Nevada. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level.
At 10,886 feet (3,318 m), it is the tallest summit in the Carson Range, El Dorado County, and the Tahoe Basin. [2] Due to its elevation, most of the precipitation that falls on the mountain is snow. [6] In 1893, the U.S. Geological Survey assigned the name Freel Peak to what was then known as Jobs Peak. James Freel was an early settler in the area.
The area is named for Freel Peak, which rises to 10,843 feet [10] elevation and is both the highest point in the Lake Tahoe Basin and in the Carson Range. [11] Of the few lakes in the area, Star Lake is at the highest elevation, 9,100 feet (2,800 m).
An extinct volcano, [6] the mountain is in between Lake Tahoe and Reno. [7] State Route 431 traverses Mount Rose Summit southeast of Mount Rose. [7] Due to the high elevation, most of the precipitation that falls on the mountain is snow. [8] The view from Mount Rose facing east is the Truckee Meadows, the second largest population center in Nevada.
Mount Tallac is a mountain peak southwest of Lake Tahoe, in El Dorado County, California. The peak lies within the Desolation Wilderness in the Eldorado National Forest. It is quite visible from State Routes 89 and 28, and U.S. Route 50. A "cross of snow" is clearly visible on the mountain's face during the winter, spring, and early summer months.
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. The following list comprises the mountain ranges of U.S. State of California designated by the United States Board on Geographic Names and cataloged in the Geographic Names Information System .
The summit of the mountain rises above the tree line. Western white pine and lodgepole pine grow up to about 8,960 feet (2,730 m). The whitebark pine survives in the form of short, stubby krummholz to as high as 9,650 feet (2,940 m). [7] A specimen of the Lake Tahoe lupine (Lupinus meionanthus) has been identified at the summit of Round Top. [8]