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The Sawtooth Range is a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in central Idaho, United States, reaching a maximum elevation of 10,751 feet (3,277 m) at the summit of Thompson Peak. It encompasses an area of 678 square miles (1,756 km 2 ) spanning parts of Custer , Boise , Blaine , and Elmore counties, and is bordered to the east by the Sawtooth ...
The Sawtooth Mountains on the shore of Lake Superior, looking west by southwest from Grand Marais, Minnesota. The Sawtooth Mountains are a range of small mountains on the North Shore of Lake Superior in the U.S. state of Minnesota, extending about 30 miles (48 km) from Carlton Peak near Tofte on the west, to Grand Marais on the east.
The Sawtooth National Recreation Area (SNRA) is a national recreation area in central Idaho, United States that is managed as part of Sawtooth National Forest.The recreation area, established on August 22, 1972, is managed by the U.S. Forest Service, and includes the Sawtooth, Hemingway–Boulders, and Cecil D. Andrus–White Clouds wilderness areas.
147 Peaks and Climbing Destinations in the Sawtooth Mountains [1] Rank Mountain Peak Elevation Prominence Isolation Location Easiest Route; 1 Thompson Peak: 10,751 ft 3277 m: 2,431 ft 741 m: 19.16 mi 30.8 km Class 3: 2 Mount Cramer: 10,715 ft 3266 m
The Sawtooth Wilderness is a federally-protected wilderness area that covers 217,088 acres (87,852 ha) of the state of Idaho. [2] [4] Managed by the U.S. Forest Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, it was designated the Sawtooth Primitive Area in 1937 to preserve the scenic beauty of the Sawtooth Mountains. [5]
Thompson Peak is the highest peak in the Sawtooth Range of Idaho. Its 10,751 ft (3,277 m) summit is located within Custer County, although some of the lower portion of the mountain is in Boise County. Thompson Peak is also located within the Sawtooth Wilderness portion of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, a unit of Sawtooth National Forest.
North Raker, also known colloquially as "The Rakers", is part of the Sawtooth Range which is a subset of the Rocky Mountains. [4] The remote mountain is situated 18 miles south-southwest of Stanley, Idaho, in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area.
Galena Summit is a high mountain pass in the western United States in central Idaho, at an elevation of 8,701 feet (2,652 m) above sea level.The pass is located in the Boulder Mountains, in the northwest corner of Blaine County, within the Sawtooth National Recreation Area of the Sawtooth National Forest.