300px|thumb|right|upright=1.2|[[Yosemite Valley]]

This list is about the Sierra Nevada of California, United States.

Principal mountains

thumb|right|Mount Whitney

List of mountains over 14,000 ft (4250 m) with 300 ft (90 m) of prominence:

  • Mount Whitney 14,505 ft (4421 m)
  • Mount Williamson 14,403 ft (4390 m)
  • North Palisade 14,242 ft (4341 m)
  • Mount Sill 14,153 ft (4314 m)
  • Mount Russell 14,094 ft (4296 m)
  • Split Mountain 14,064 ft (4286 m)
  • Mount Langley 14,025 ft (4280 m)
  • Mount Tyndall 14,019 ft (4273 m)
  • Middle Palisade 14,012 ft (4271 m)
  • Mount Muir 14,012 ft (4271 m)

Other notable peaks:

  • Lost Corner Mountain
  • Mount Baxter
  • Black Kaweah
  • Castle Peak
  • Cathedral Peak
  • Johnson Peak, the highest mountain in Tuolumne Meadows
  • El Capitan
  • Mount Conness
  • Mount Dana
  • Mount Darwin
  • Mount Davis
  • Fresno Dome
  • Mount Gibbs
  • Half Dome
  • Mount Hopkins
  • Mount Humphreys
  • Mount Huntington
  • Lembert Dome
  • Liberty Cap
  • Mount Lyell
  • Maggies Peaks
  • Mammoth Mountain
  • Matterhorn Peak
  • The Minarets
  • Mount Morgan
  • Mount Morrison
  • Pyramid Peak
  • Red Kaweah
  • Red Slate Mountain
  • Mount Ritter
  • Shuteye Peak
  • Thunderbolt Peak
  • Mount Tom

Subranges

  • Carson Range
  • Cathedral Range
  • Clark Range
  • Crystal Range
  • Great Western Divide
  • Kaweah Peaks Ridge
  • Palisades
  • Ritter Range
  • Sherwin Range

Counties in the Sierra

thumb|right|[[Sonora Peak, highest point in Alpine County]]

  • Alpine County, California
  • Amador County, California
  • Butte County, California
  • Calaveras County, California
  • El Dorado County, California
  • Fresno County, California
  • Inyo County, California
  • Kern County, California
  • Madera County, California
  • Mariposa County, California
  • Mono County, California
  • Nevada County, California
  • Placer County, California
  • Plumas County, California
  • Sierra County, California
  • Tulare County, California
  • Tuolumne County, California
  • Yuba County, California

The Carson Range (a spur of the Sierra) extends into Nevada:

  • Douglas County, Nevada
  • Carson City, Nevada
  • Washoe County, Nevada

Principal rivers

thumb|right|The headwaters of the San Joaquin River

  • American River
  • Cosumnes River
  • Feather River
  • Kern River
  • Kings River
  • Merced River
  • Mokelumne River
  • Sacramento River
  • San Joaquin River
  • Stanislaus River
  • Truckee River
  • Tuolumne River
  • Yuba River

Prominent Lakes

thumb|right|Mono Lake as seen from [[Mount Dana.]]

  • Lake Tahoe
  • Bass Lake
  • Beardsley Lake
  • Cherry Lake
  • Mono Lake
  • New Melones Lake
  • Pinecrest Lake
  • Tioga Lake
  • Tulloch Lake
  • Twain Harte Lake

Other natural features

thumb|right|Hetch Hetchy Valley

  • Devil's Postpile
  • Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne River
  • Hetch Hetchy Valley
  • Kings Canyon
  • Long Valley Caldera
  • Owens Valley
  • San Joaquin Valley
  • Sacramento Valley
  • Tuolumne Meadows
  • Yosemite Valley
  • List of waterfalls in Yosemite National Park

National parks and monuments

thumb|right|Devils Postpile

North to south:

  • Yosemite National Park
  • Kings Canyon National Park
  • Sequoia National Park
  • Giant Sequoia National Monument

Eastern side of the Sierra:

  • Devil's Postpile National Monument

National forests

  • Eldorado National Forest
  • Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
  • Inyo National Forest
  • Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit
  • Plumas National Forest
  • Sequoia National Forest
  • Sierra National Forest
  • Stanislaus National Forest
  • Tahoe National Forest

Wilderness areas

thumb|right|[[Mount Ritter and Banner Peak in the Ansel Adams Wilderness]]

A total of over in 26 separate areas

  • Ansel Adams
  • Bright Star
  • Bucks Lake
  • Carson-Iceberg
  • Chimney Peak
  • Desolation
  • Dinkey Lakes
  • Domeland
  • Emigrant
  • Golden Trout
  • Granite Chief
  • Hoover
  • Jennie Lakes
  • John Krebs
  • John Muir
  • Kaiser
  • Kiavah
  • Mokelumne
  • Monarch
  • Mount Rose
  • Owens Peak
  • Owens River Headwaters
  • Sacatar Trail
  • Sequoia-Kings Canyon
  • South Sierra
  • Yosemite

State Parks

California

thumb|right|Bodie State Historic Park

  • Auburn State Recreation Area
  • Bodie State Historic Park
  • Burton Creek State Park
  • Calaveras Big Trees State Park
  • California State Mining and Mineral Museum Park Property
  • Columbia State Historic Park
  • D. L. Bliss State Park
  • Donner Memorial State Park
  • Emerald Bay State Park
  • Empire Mine State Historic Park
  • Folsom Lake State Recreation Area
  • Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park
  • Grover Hot Springs State Park
  • Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park
  • Kings Beach State Recreation Area
  • Lake Valley State Recreation Area
  • Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park
  • Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
  • Millerton Lake State Recreation Area
  • Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve
  • Prairie City State Vehicular Recreation Area
  • Railtown 1897 State Historic Park
  • South Yuba River State Park
  • Stone Lake Park Property
  • Sugar Pine Point Light
  • Tahoe State Recreation Area
  • Ward Creek Park Property
  • Washoe Meadows State Park
  • Wassama Round House State Historic Park

Nevada

  • Dayton State Park
  • Lake Tahoe-Nevada State Park
  • Mormon Station State Historic Park
  • Washoe Lake State Park

Trails and routes

  • John Muir Trail
  • Pacific Crest Trail
  • Four Mile Trail
  • Hetch Hetchy to Lake Vernon Trail
  • High Sierra Trail
  • Independence Trail
  • Lower Sagehen Creek Hiking Trail
  • Mist Trail
  • Mount Whitney Trail
  • Sierra High Route
  • Silver Knapsack Trail
  • Tahoe Rim Trail
  • Tahoe–Yosemite Trail
  • Theodore Solomons Trail
  • Trans-Sierra Highway

Giant sequoia

thumb|right|upright|[[General Sherman Tree]]

  • Converse Basin Grove
  • Boole (tree)
  • General Sherman Tree
  • General Grant (tree)
  • General Noble (tree)
  • Giant Forest
  • The President (tree)
  • Lincoln (tree)
  • Nelder Grove
  • Mariposa Grove
  • Mark Twain Tree
  • Stagg (tree)
  • Redwood Mountain Grove

Mountain passes

  • Carson Pass
  • Donner Pass
  • Ebbetts Pass
  • Forester Pass
  • Fredonyer Pass
  • Glen Pass
  • Morgan Summit
  • Muir Pass
  • Pacific Grade Summit
  • Sherman Pass
  • Sonora Pass
  • Tehachapi Pass
  • Tioga Pass
  • Walker Pass

Fires

thumb|right|Rim Fire

  • Cedar Fire (2003)
  • Rim Fire (2013)
  • Thomas Fire (2017)
  • Mendocino Complex (2018)
  • August Complex fire (2020)
  • North Complex Fire (2020)
  • LNU Lightning Complex fires (2020)
  • SCU Lightning Complex fires (2020)
  • SQF Complex (2020)
  • Creek Fire (2020)
  • Caldor Fire (2021)
  • Dixie Fire (2021)
  • Oak Fire (2022)
  • Washburn Fire (2022)

thumb|right|upright|John Muir

  • Ansel Adams
  • Lafayette Bunnell
  • Kit Carson
  • Galen Clark
  • Norman Clyde
  • C.C. Curtis
  • Francis P. Farquhar
  • James Mason Hutchings
  • Joseph LeConte
  • Joseph Nisbet LeConte
  • John Muir
  • Jim Savage
  • Carl Sharsmith
  • Theodore Solomons
  • Walter A. Starr, Jr.
  • Chief Tenaya
  • Snowshoe Thompson
  • Josiah Whitney

Relevant list articles

  • List of first ascents in the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
  • List of Sierra Nevada road passes
  • List of Yosemite destinations

See also

  • Bibliography of the Sierra Nevada

References