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Camelback Mountain ( O'odham: Cew S-wegiom) is a mountain in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. The English name is derived from its shape, which resembles the hump and head of a kneeling camel. [ 3] The mountain, a prominent landmark of the Phoenix metropolitan area, is located in the Camelback Mountain Echo Canyon Recreation Area between the ...
Apache–Sitgreaves National Forest. The Apache–Sitgreaves National Forests[ a] is a 2.76-million-acre (11,169 km 2) [ 1] United States National Forest which runs along the Mogollon Rim and the White Mountains in east-central Arizona and into the U.S. state of New Mexico. Formerly two forests, it is currently managed as one unit by USDA ...
Ajo Range, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Artillery Mountains above Alamo Lake. Dragoon Mountains. View of the Galiuro Mountains from San Manuel, Arizona. Harquahala Mountains in spring, 2009. McDowell Mountains at sunset. Low clouds on the Mohawk Mountains. Navajo Mountain and Lake Powell, viewed from the north.
List of mountain peaks of Arizona. Coordinates: 35.3464°N 111.6780°W. Humphreys Peak is the highest summit of the U.S. State of Arizona. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [ 1] of the U.S. State of Arizona . The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Four Peaks ( Yavapai: Wi:khoba [4]) is a prominent landmark on the eastern skyline of Phoenix. Part of the Mazatzal Mountains, it is located in the Four Peaks Wilderness [5] in the Tonto National Forest, 40 miles (64 km) east-northeast of Phoenix. In winter, Four Peaks offers much of the Phoenix metro area a view of snow-covered peaks.
The mountain range is generally 10-15 mi wide, narrower in the north, and west of the Detrital Valley northeast. The southern end of the range with the two wilderness areas is a larger block and the Warm Springs Wilderness is made of a mountain section called Black Mesa, separated from the north section by Sitgreaves Pass, on the route to Oatman, Arizona.
The Harquahala Mountains ( Yavapai: ʼHakhe:la) are the highest mountain range in southwestern Arizona, United States and are located southwest of the towns of Aguila and Wenden. The name originated from the Yavapai 'ʼHakhe:la", which means "running water". The range is oriented from northeast to southwest and is approximately 32 km long and ...
Setting. This is a landscape of steep mountains and high stony plateaus with rocky outcrops from the Kaibab Plateau in northern Arizona south to the Mogollon Plateau and eastwards across into southwestern New Mexico. Elevations range from 1,370 to 3,000 meters (4,490 to 9,840 ft), with some peaks higher than that.