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Nopah Range
Nopah Range from Chicago Valley.jpg
Nopah Range as seem from the Chicago Valley
Highest point
Elevation 1,941 m (6,368 ft)
Geography
Nopah Range is located in California
Nopah Range
Location in California
Country United States
State California
District Inyo County
Range coordinates 36°0′21.873″N 116°4′49.084″W / 36.00607583°N 116.08030111°W / 36.00607583; -116.08030111
Topo map USGS Nopah Peak

The Nopah Range is a mountain range located in Inyo County, California, United States, near the eastern border with Nevada.

Geography

The mountain range lies east of the adjacent Resting Spring Range, the Owlshead Mountains and lower Death Valley, and are north of the Kingston Range. The Amargosa River is to the west. They are located directly east of Shoshone, California, and the Chicago Valley, northeast of Tecopa, California, southwest of Pahrump, Nevada, and west of Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Nopah Range mountains reach an elevation of 6,395 feet above sea level at Nopah Peak, in the center of the range. The Nopah Range is approximately 26 miles long.

Wilderness

The Nopah Range Wilderness consists of 106,623 acres of the mountain range. Established in 1994 by the U.S. Congress, the wilderness area is managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Elevations range from 1,800 feet (548 m) to 6,395 feet (1949 m). The South Nopah Range Wilderness includes 17,059 acres of lower elevation foothills of the range.

Gallery

  • Looking South into The South Nopah Range WA

    Looking south into the South Nopah Range Wilderness Area, Inyo County, California, 2017

  • One Mile North of the Old Spanish Trail highway in Inyo County, California

    Looking at the Nopah Range Wilderness Area from about one mile north of the roadway, 2019

  • Spanish Trail Marker Looks Over the Countryside of Inyo County, California

    These granite markers appear here and there to mark what used to be the Old Spanish Trail, 2019

  • Limestone Cliff Nopah Range Wilderness Area

    These craggy looking cliffs might appear to be volcanic but they are actually weathered limestone, 2019

  • Quartzite boulder one mile north of Emigrant Pass from the Old Spanish Trail Highway in Inyo, County California

    Beautiful looking red quartzite boulders at this location, north of Emigrant Pass, 2019

  • Road Cut in the Nopah Range Near Emigrant Pass that Yields Partial Trilobites

    The road cut here near Emigrant Pass has been hunted for decades for trilobites, 2017

  • At the Road Cut Along The Old Spanish Trail Highway in Inyo County, California near Emigrant Pass

    Trilobite hunting area next to the roadway has good access and easy parking, 2017

  • Hunting Trilobites in Shale alongside the Old Spanish Trail Highway in the Nopah Range, Inyo County, California

    Misting or water bottle needed to reveal partial trilobites, 2017

  • Partial trilobite from a roadcut in the Nopah Range Alongside The Old Spanish Highway in Inyo County

    This site provides mostly partial trilobites. Finding a full bug is very hard, 2017

  • California Route 127 outside Nopah Range

    Nopah Range, near California State Route 127

  • Looking east from Emigrant Pass, Nopah Range, Inyo County, California

    A gravel hauler works the grade up to the top of Emigrant Pass in the Nopah Range

  • Fractured sandstone in the Nopah Range

    Fractured sandstone in the North Nopah Wilderness Area

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