Grapevine Mountains
Grapevine Mountains
Location of Grapevine Mountains along the border of California and Nevada[1]
The Grapevine Mountains is a mountain range located along the border of Inyo County, California and Nye County, Nevada in the United States. The mountain range is about 22 miles (35 km) long and lies in a northwest-southeasterly direction along the Nevada-California state line. The range reaches an elevation of 8,738 feet (2,663 m) at Grapevine Peak, near Phinney Canyon on the Nevada side. Daylight Pass is at the southern end of the range. Most of the Grapevine Mountain chain is in Death Valley National Park.
The range was named for the wild grapes in the area.[2]
References
- ^ "Grapevine Mountains". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
- ^ Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada (PDF). W.P.A. p. 32.
- Allan, Stuart (2005). California Road and Recreation Atlas. Benchmark Maps. p. 81. ISBN 0-929591-80-1.
See also
- Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert
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- Amargosa Range / River / Valley
- Ash Meadows NWR
- Badwater Basin
- Ballarat
- Beatty
- Black Mountains
- Chloride City
- Cottonwood Mountains
- Dante's View
- Darwin Falls
- Death Valley Junction
- Devil's Golf Course
- Eureka Valley / Dunes
- Funeral Mountains
- Furnace Creek
- Panamint City / Panamint Range / Panamint Springs / Panamint Valley
- Rainbow Canyon
- Racetrack Playa
- Rhyolite
- Saline Valley
- Saratoga Springs
- Scotty's Castle
- Stovepipe Wells
- Telescope Peak
- Trona
- Ubehebe Crater
- Zabriskie Point
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