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Mount Charleston, including Charleston Peak (Nuvagantu, literally "where snow sits", in Southern Paiute [5] or Nüpakatütün in Shoshoni [6]) at 11,916 feet (3,632 m), [7] is the highest mountain in both the Spring Mountains and Clark County, in Nevada, United States. It is the eighth-highest mountain in the state. [8]
The Spring Mountains divide the Pahrump Valley and Amargosa River basins from the Las Vegas Valley watershed, which drains into the Colorado River watershed, by way of Las Vegas Wash into Lake Mead, thus the mountains define part of the boundary of the Great Basin.
The Spring Mountains National Recreation Area (SMNRA) is a U.S. national recreation area, administered by the U.S. Forest Service, west of Las Vegas, Nevada. It covers over 316,000 acres (494 sq mi; 1,280 km 2). The area runs from low meadows (around 3,000 feet or 910 meters above sea level), to the 11,918-foot (3,633 m) Mount Charleston.
A strange monolith found jutting out of the rocks in a remote mountain range near Las Vegas has been taken down by authorities. “It remains unknown how the item got to its location or who might ...
Turtlehead Mountain, also known as Turtlehead Peak, is located 17 miles (27 km) west of downtown Las Vegas in the Spring Mountains which are a subrange of the Great Basin Ranges. It is set on land administered by the Bureau of Land Management as the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
View from the summit of Black Top Mountain. Black Mountain is a landmark mountain south of the Las Vegas Valley. It is one of the more prominent of the mountains in the McCullough Range. Another mountain, adjacent to Interstate 11 in Henderson, is commonly called Black Mountain, including by the city of Henderson. It is actually an unnamed peak.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department took to X on Monday to share news of the puzzling discovery found on a hiking trail near Gass Peak, located on the northern side of the city.
The Sisters is part of the Spring Mountains which are a subrange of the Great Basin Ranges.The mountain is located 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Las Vegas in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area and on the boundary of the Mount Charleston Wilderness, on land managed by the Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest. [2]