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Wheeler Peak is the tallest mountain in the Snake Range and in White Pine County, in Nevada, United States.The summit elevation of 13,065 feet (3,982 m) makes it the second-highest peak in Nevada, just behind Boundary Peak. [4]
Of the most prominent summits of Nevada, Charleston Peak and Wheeler Peak exceed 2000 meters (6562 feet) of topographic prominence, eight peaks are ultra-prominent summits with more than 1500 meters (4921 feet) of topographic prominence, and the following 52 peaks exceed 1400 meters (4593 feet).
To the north of this peak is an unusual formation, a flat plateau of sub-alpine tundra called "The Table", covering about 2 square miles (5.2 km 2) at an elevation of 11,000 feet (3,400 m). A grove of ancient Great Basin Bristlecone Pines grows on this plateau near the peak.
Wheeler Peak is the focus of the 19,661-acre (79.57 km 2) Wheeler Peak Wilderness area in the Carson National Forest. Much of the mountain area just south of the peak is on Taos Pueblo land. Some 48,000 acres (190 km 2 ) was returned to the pueblo from the Carson National Forest in 1970 [ 4 ] and another 764 acres (3.09 km 2 ) in 1996.
Webcam views from Maggie Valley, Sugar Mountain, Waynesville, and Beech Mountain on Wednesday morning, Oct. 16, 2024 show freshly fallen snow in the mountai Snow falls on North Carolina's ...
The Wheeler Peak Glacier is a vestige of the last glacial maximum, when the climate was as much as 8 degrees cooler than it is today. During that time period, glaciers moved down to as low as 9,200 feet (2,800 m), but subsequent warming during the Holocene Epoch (starting 10,000 years ago) caused widespread melting of both continental glaciers ...
Wheeler Peak is the highest summit of the U.S. State of New Mexico. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of the U.S. State of New Mexico. 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.
Mount Walter is the second highest named summit in the U.S. state of New Mexico, rising to 13,141 feet above sea level.However it is not usually counted as an independent mountain since it has only about 53 feet (16 m) of topographic prominence, and is only 0.4 miles (0.6 km) north-northeast of Wheeler Peak, the highest peak in New Mexico. [3]