Mount Manchester

Last updated
Mount Manchester
Dead Mountains from Mohave Valley 1.jpg
View looking west
(Dead Mountains trend S-N)
Highest point
Elevation 3,602 ft (1,098 m)  NAVD 88 [1]
Prominence 1,287 ft (392 m) [2]
Coordinates 35°01′40″N114°44′56″W / 35.027808986°N 114.748938169°W / 35.027808986; -114.748938169 [1]
Geography
Location San Bernardino County, California, U.S.
Parent range Dead Mountains
Climbing
Easiest route Hike

Mount Manchester is the highest peak in the Dead Mountains of extreme northeastern San Bernardino County, California, in the Mojave Desert.

Contents

Dead Mountains wilderness

Mount Manchester is the highest point of the Bureau of Land Management wilderness area which comprises most of the Dead Mountains. [3]

The Dead Mountains border the Colorado River on the east, and the Piute Wash of the Piute Valley on the west. Piute Wash drains south, then turns east for 8 miles (13 km) at the southern end of the mountain range to meet the Colorado River.

The Dead Mountains are located about 12 mi (19 km) north of Needles, California, just southwest of the Nevada state line. The closest communities to the wilderness area are Laughlin, Nevada, and Bullhead City and Fort Mohave, Arizona, located across the Colorado River to the east of the mountain range. The wilderness area can be accessed via unpaved roads west of Needles Highway, which connects Needles with Laughlin, Nevada and Nevada State Highway 163. More unpaved roads provide access to the Dead Mountains Wilderness from U.S. Highway 95, which runs north–south on the west side of the mountain range and connects Interstate 40 with the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

Mount Manchester, view from SE of Dead Mountains, at base of wash and alluvial fan-(4 mi NW of Needles) Dead Mountains wash 2.jpg
Mount Manchester, view from SE of Dead Mountains, at base of wash and alluvial fan-(4 mi NW of Needles)
Closer view from SE (on River Road, (west bank of Colorado River))
(Pinnacle NE of Mount Manchester is identifier) Dead Mountains 5.jpg
Closer view from SE (on River Road, (west bank of Colorado River))
(Pinnacle NE of Mount Manchester is identifier)

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mohave Valley</span> Landform along the Colorado River in Arizona

The Mohave Valley is a valley located mostly on the east shore of the south-flowing Colorado River in northwest Arizona. The valley extends into California's San Bernardino County; the northern side of the valley extends into extreme southeast Clark County, Nevada. The main part of the valley lies in southwest Mohave County, Arizona and is at the intersection of the southeast Mojave and northwest Sonoran deserts.

Goffs, an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California, is a nearly empty one-time railroad town at the route's high point in the Mojave Desert. Goffs was a stop on famous U.S. Route 66 until 1931 when a more direct road opened between Needles and Essex. Goffs was also home to workers of the nearby Santa Fe Railroad, with Homer east, Fenner south, and Blackburn and Purdy north. Goffs is also known as the "Desert Tortoise Capital of the World."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dead Mountains</span> Landform in San Bernardino County, California

The Dead Mountains are a mountain range in the southeastern Mojave Desert, in San Bernardino County, California. The range borders the tri-state intersection of Nevada, Arizona and California, and the Mohave Valley, with the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation bordering the range foothills on the east and northeast, in the three states.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chemehuevi Mountains</span> Landform in southern California near the Colorado River

The Chemehuevi Mountains are a mountain range that are found at the southeast border of San Bernardino County in southeastern California and are adjacent the Colorado River. Located south of Needles, California and northwest of the Whipple Mountains, the mountains are oriented in a north–south direction, and stretch for approximately 15 miles (24 km) in length.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sacramento Mountains (California)</span>

The Sacramento Mountains are a mountain range in the Eastern Mojave Desert and within Mojave Trails National Monument, in San Bernardino County, California.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Turtle Mountains (California)</span> Mountain range in California, United States

The Turtle Mountains, are located in northeastern San Bernardino County, in the southeastern part of California. The colorful Turtle Mountains vary from deep reds, browns, tans and grays, to black. The area has numerous springs and seeps. The Turtle Mountains are also a National Natural Landmark, with two mountain sections of entirely different composition.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Whipple Mountains</span> Landform in San Bernardino County, Arizona

The Whipple Mountains are located in eastern San Bernardino County, California. They are directly west of the Colorado River, Parker Dam, and Lake Havasu; south of Needles, California; north of Parker, Arizona and Vidal, California; and northeast of Vidal Junction, California.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Piute Range</span> Landform in the Mojave Desert, California

The Piute Range is located in the Mojave Desert, primarily in northeast San Bernardino County, California, United States, with a north portion in Nevada. Most of the range is the eastern border of the Mojave National Preserve, a National Park Service natural area and park.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lanfair Valley</span>

Lanfair Valley is located in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California near the Nevada state line. It is bounded on the north by the New York Mountains and Castle Mountains, on the east by the Piute Range, and on the south by the Woods Mountains and Vontrigger Hills. Joshua Trees can be found in most of the valley. Elevation is 4,045 feet.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Newberry Mountains (Nevada)</span>

The Newberry Mountains in Nevada are located east of Cal-Nev-Ari and the United States Coast Guard LORAN station in the southern part of the state. The range is Nevada's southernmost named mountain range, and lies to the northwest of the town of Laughlin and west of Lake Mohave. The Newberry Mountains connect with the Eldorado Mountains and The Highland Mountains. The highest point in the range is Spirit Mountain at 5,642 feet (1,720 m).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mojave Road</span> Historical trails and roads

The Mojave Road, also known as Old Government Road, is a historic route and present day dirt road across what is now the Mojave National Preserve in the Mojave Desert in the United States. This rough road stretched 147 miles (237 km) from Beale's Crossing, to Fork of the Road location along the north bank of the Mojave River where the old Mojave Road split off from the route of the Old Spanish Trail/Mormon Road.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lower Colorado River Valley</span> Landform in Arizona and California

The Lower Colorado River Valley (LCRV) is the river region of the lower Colorado River of the southwestern United States in North America that rises in the Rocky Mountains and has its outlet at the Colorado River Delta in the northern Gulf of California in northwestern Mexico, between the states of Baja California and Sonora. This north–south stretch of the Colorado River forms the border between the U.S. states of California/Arizona and Nevada/Arizona, and between the Mexican states of Baja California/Sonora.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Warm Springs Wilderness</span> Protected area in Mohave County, Arizona

The 112,400-acre (45,500 ha) Warm Springs Wilderness makes up the entirety of the Black Mesa and parts of the surrounding foothills, washes, alluvial fans, and valleys. The Black Mesa is the southernmost section of the Black Mountains of western Mohave County, in northwest Arizona. The region is in the east and southeast of the Mojave Desert of Arizona, southern Nevada, and California.

The Piper Mountain Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located in the White Mountains 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Big Pine, California in Inyo County, California.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sacramento Wash</span> Waterbody in Mohave County, Arizona

The Sacramento Wash is a major drainage of northwest Arizona in Mohave County. The wash is east of the Black Canyon of the Colorado and drains into the south-flowing Colorado River 45 mi south of Lake Mohave, and 90 mi south of Hoover Dam at Lake Mead. The wash outfall is in the center-south of the Havasu-Mohave Lakes Watershed. An equivalent wash drains to the west of the Colorado River and the Black Canyon, draining southeast Nevada and a small part of California, the Piute Wash of the Piute Valley. The Piute Wash outfall is upstream of the Sacramento's outfall by about 15 miles.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Spirit Mountain Wilderness</span> Federally protected wilderness area in Nevada

Spirit Mountain Wilderness Area is a 33,518-acre (13,564 ha) wilderness area located in the Newberry Mountains in Clark County, Nevada, 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Laughlin. Spirit Mountain lies within the area. It is managed by the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Piute Wash</span> River in California, United States

The Piute Wash of extreme southeastern Nevada and northeast San Bernardino County California is the south-flowing drainage of the Piute Valley. The wash and valley are located northwest of Needles, California.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Piute Valley</span>

The Piute Valley is a 45-mile-long (72 km) north–south valley southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, and northwest of Needles. The north of the valley is at Searchlight, with some of the valley extending northwest from Searchlight. At the center-north lies Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chemehuevi Wash</span> River in the United States of America

The Chemehuevi Wash is a large wash of northeast San Bernardino County in the southeast Mojave Desert. The wash enters the center-west bank of Lake Havasu on the California–Arizona border. Chemehuevi Wash drains the center of the Chemehuevi Valley and the regional landforms of washes, valleys and mountains is adjacent the northeast region of the Colorado Desert, the entire region south on the west side of the south-flowing Colorado River.

The Sacramento Wash (California) is the drainage southward, then east from the Lanfair Valley of extreme eastern San Bernardino County, California. The drainage combines with the Piute Wash-(mostly of Nevada) at the south terminus of the Dead Mountains, and immediately enters the Colorado River, just north of Needles, California. Another Sacramento Wash occurs across the Colorado, as an eastern drainage from northwest Arizona, also at Needles, CA.

References

  1. 1 2 "Dead". NGS Data Sheet. National Geodetic Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Department of Commerce . Retrieved 2011-07-13.
  2. "Mount Manchester, California". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  3. Dead Mountains Wilderness Archived 2009-03-05 at the Wayback Machine