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May 10 2025
Saint Elias Mountains
🏔️ Overview The Saint Elias Mountains are one of North America’s most spectacular mountain systems, rising across southeastern Alaska, southwestern Yukon, and the extreme northwestern corner of British Columbia. They form part of the larger Pacific Coast Ranges and contain an extraordinary concentration of high peaks, enormous glaciers, deep valleys, and rugged wilderness. The range’s …
May 10 2025
Rincon Mountains
🏔️ Overview The Rincon Mountains rise dramatically from the Sonoran Desert east of Tucson, Arizona. Although they sit close to a major metropolitan area, much of the range remains rugged wilderness, with long trails, limited road access, deep canyons, rocky ridges, and forests hidden thousands of feet above the desert floor. The range is part …
May 10 2025
Olympic Mountains
The Olympic Mountains rise from the heart of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, forming one of the most distinctive mountain landscapes in the Pacific Northwest. Although their highest summits remain below 8,000 feet, the Olympics possess exceptional vertical relief because they rise rapidly from lowlands near the Pacific Ocean, Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Hood Canal. …
May 10 2025
Pacific Coast Ranges
🏔️ Overview The Pacific Coast Ranges are a vast collection of mountain ranges extending along the western side of North America, from Alaska and western Canada south through the western United States and into Mexico. Rather than forming one continuous ridge, the Pacific Coast Ranges consist of numerous individual mountain systems separated by valleys, lowlands, …
May 10 2025
Sawtooth Range
🏔️ Overview The Sawtooth Range is one of the most recognizable mountain landscapes in the American West. Rising above the valleys of central Idaho, the range is defined by sharp granite summits, glacially carved basins, clear alpine lakes, and steep ridges that give the mountains their distinctive saw-blade appearance. The Sawtooths form part of the …
May 10 2025
Sawatch Range
🏔️ Overview The Sawatch Range is one of the highest and most impressive mountain ranges in the United States. Located in central Colorado, it forms part of the Southern Rocky Mountains and contains an extraordinary concentration of high summits, including Mount Elbert, the highest mountain in Colorado and the highest summit anywhere in the Rocky …
May 10 2025
Klamath Mountains
🏔️ Overview The Klamath Mountains form one of the most geologically complex and biologically diverse mountain regions in the western United States. Spreading across northwestern California and southwestern Oregon, the mountains consist of a complicated network of rugged ridges, deep river canyons, forested slopes, alpine basins, and numerous individual subranges rather than a single continuous …
May 10 2025
Huachuca Mountains
The Huachuca Mountains rise dramatically above the grasslands and desert valleys of southeastern Arizona, forming one of the most biologically diverse mountain landscapes in the American Southwest. Located near Sierra Vista and the U.S.–Mexico border, the range is part of the Madrean Sky Islands—isolated mountain systems whose cooler, wetter high elevations support ecosystems strikingly different …
May 10 2025
Santa Catalina Mountains
🏔️ Overview Rising abruptly above Tucson and the surrounding Sonoran Desert, the Santa Catalina Mountains are one of the most distinctive mountain ranges in southern Arizona. Commonly called the Catalinas, the range forms the dramatic northern and northeastern skyline of the Tucson metropolitan area and is one of the best-known examples of a Madrean Sky …
May 09 2025
Crazy Mountains
🏔️ Overview The Crazy Mountains, commonly called the Crazies, are a compact, rugged mountain range in south-central Montana. Rising abruptly from the surrounding plains and river valleys, they form one of Montana’s most distinctive island mountain ranges—a mountain group separated from the main spine of the Rocky Mountains by comparatively low terrain. The range belongs …
