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[4] [5] Lying within the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and Angeles National Forest, it is the highest point within the mountain range, the County of Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Mount San Antonio's sometimes snow-capped peaks are visible on clear days and dominate the view of the Los Angeles Basin skyline.
This is a list of 58 counties of the U.S. State of California by their points of highest elevation. 6 of the 50 highest county high points in the United States are in California. Mount Whitney, located in Inyo and Tulare counties, is the highest point in California as well as the highest point in the contiguous United States at 14,505 feet ...
Mount Lukens is a radio site with buildings owned by American Tower, Crown Castle, Mobile Relay Associates, among others. This site provides excellent coverage of Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley, Orange County and parts of Riverside and San Bernardino areas. It houses both broadcast and two-way communications facilities on virtually every ...
Tejon Pass marks the intersection of the two largest seismic faults in California; the San Andreas and Garlock fault systems. The highest point of the pass is near the northwesternmost corner of Los Angeles County, north of Gorman. Its elevation is 4,160 feet (1,270 m) [1] along Peace Valley Road and Gorman Post Road, 70 miles (110 km ...
The highest elevation, Mount San Antonio (Mount Baldy) at 10,069 feet (3,069 m), [8] rises towards the eastern extremity of the range which extends from the Cajon Pass (Interstate 15) on the east, where the San Gabriel Mountain Range meets the San Bernardino Mountain Range, westward to meet the Santa Susana Mountains at Newhall Pass (Interstate 5).
Echo has a mean elevation of 3,207 feet (977 m). It is most visible as a short mountain extension whose ridge protrudes below the peak of Inspiration Point. [citation needed] Echo Mountain's name is derived from the number of repetitions one's voice [4] could emit into Castle Canyon.
Mount Darwin is the highest summit of the Evolution Peaks of the Sierra Nevada. Mount Tom in the Sierra Nevada. San Gorgonio Mountain is the highest summit of the San Bernardino Mountains and the third most topographically isolated California peak. Telescope Peak is the highest summit of the Panamint Range.
It is the location of the Mount Wilson Observatory, which is an important astronomical facility in Southern California with historic 60-inch (1,524 mm) and 100-inch (2,540 mm) aperture telescopes, and 60-foot (18.3 m) and 150-foot (45.7 m) tall solar towers. The newer CHARA Array, run by Georgia State University, is also sited there and does ...