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Whitewater Baldy is the highest point of the Mogollon Mountains and the 3rd highest mountain in Southern New Mexico, after Sierra Blanca Peak and Lincoln County's Lookout Mountain. It is located in Catron County in the Gila Wilderness, part of the Gila National Forest. It lies about 15 miles (24 km) east of the town of Glenwood (on U.S. Route 180).
Most of the Mogollon Mountains range is protected within the Gila Wilderness, in the Gila National Forest. The highest point in the range is Whitewater Baldy which, at 10,895 ft (3,321 m), is the highest point in southwestern New Mexico. The range also contains five other peaks over 10,000 feet, most notably Mogollon Baldy 10,778 ft (3,285 m).
Mogollon Baldy is one of the tallest mountains in the Mogollon Mountains of New Mexico in the United States. It is about 10,774 feet (3,284 m) tall. It is in the Gila National Forest and the Gila Wilderness. The summit marks the boundary between the Wilderness Ranger District and the Glenwood Ranger District.
The Mogollon Mountains traverse an arc across the wilderness. The tallest peak within this range, Whitewater Baldy at 10,895 ft (3,321 m), is in the northwest part of the wilderness along with several other summits more than 10,000 ft (3,048 m) high. At the northeast corner is prominent Black Mountain rising to 9,287 ft (2,831 m). [3]
Highest point; Elevation: 10,102 ft (3,079 m) [1] Prominence: 450 ft (140 m) [2] Isolation: 0.98 mi (1.58 km) to Black Mountain [2] Coordinates: 1]: Geography; Location: Catron County, New Mexico, United States: Parent range: Mogollon Mountains [3]: Topo map: USGS Grouse Mountain: Geology; Rock age(s): Miocene, between 23 and 5.3 Million years ago [4]: Rock type(s): Rhyolitic pyroclastic and ...
The following sortable table comprises the 403 mountain peaks of greater North America [1] with at least 3000 meters (9843 feet) of elevation and at least 500 meters (1640 feet) of topographic prominence. [2] The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general.
The Mogollon Rim is a major floristic and faunal boundary, with species characteristic of the Rocky Mountains living on the top of the plateau, and species native to the Mexican Sierra Madre Occidental on the slopes below and in the Madrean Sky Islands (high, isolated mountain ranges) further south. [citation needed]