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Highland Range Crucial Bighorn Habitat Area

Highland Range Crucial Bighorn Habitat Area from directly overhead

Highland Range Crucial Bighorn Habitat Area is a park in Nevada, at a recorded elevation of 916 m. McCullough Mountain stands 2,125 m to the west-southwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Ten Mile Spring, a spring 3.5 miles away. 170 named places lie within 25 miles, 40 of them named summits.

What the record says

Elevation
916 m

How to reach it

Coordinates35.63554, -114.98415

170 named places within 25 miles

Attractions: 46
Peaks: 40
  • Knob Hill: 7.7 mi
  • Ireteba Peaks: 9.2 mi
  • Mount Duncan: 11.2 mi
  • McCullough Mountain: 11.2 mi
  • Doherty Mountain: 11.9 mi
Springs: 31
  • Ten Mile Spring: 3.5 mi
  • Eldorado Rover Spring: 8.3 mi
  • Tule Spring: 8.3 mi
  • Tule Spring: 8.4 mi
  • Francis Mining Claim Spring: 9.4 mi
Parks: 20
  • Searchlight Town Park: 12.4 mi
  • Madeira Canyon Park: 21.2 mi
  • Glengarry/Earlstone Park: 21.4 mi
  • Esselmont Park: 21.7 mi
  • Aventura Park: 22.0 mi
Historic sites: 13
  • Cattle pen/ natural spring: 8.1 mi
  • Cattle pen/natural spring: 8.2 mi
  • El Dorado Canyon: 10.2 mi
  • Queho's Cave: 11.3 mi
  • El Dorado Canyon: 11.4 mi
Gardens: 7
  • Rock Garden: 19.9 mi
  • Rock Garden: 22.8 mi
  • Rock Garden: 23.5 mi
  • Rock Garden: 23.6 mi
  • Rock Art (Peace): 23.7 mi
Ghost towns: 5
Artworks: 5
  • Seven Magic Mountains: 21.3 mi
  • Gas Can/Chainwheel/Bullet Art: 23.4 mi
  • Smiley Face Rock Art: 23.6 mi
  • Smiley Face Rock Art: 23.7 mi
  • Rock Lizards: 24.5 mi
Nature reserves: 1
Cliffs: 1
Museums: 1
  • Tom Devlin's Monster Museum: 24.4 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Highland Range Crucial Bighorn Habitat Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
McCullough MountainWSW 258°2,125 m11.2 mi
Crescent PeakSW 216°1,775 m13.7 mi
Castle PeaksSSW 208°1,712 m20.9 mi
Hart PeakSSW 195°1,651 m20.9 mi
Black MountainN 351°1,552.05 m20.7 mi
Peak 5058N 350°1,541.7 m18.9 mi
Ireteba PeaksESE 108°1,528 m9.2 mi
Peak 4928N 350°1,502.06 m19.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4418:1818:52
June solstice05:2519:2220:00
September equinox06:2918:0518:38
December solstice06:4715:5216:31

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F464854616979858477665445
Precip in1.21.50.70.40.10.00.80.80.50.50.30.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Searchlight, 12 mi away.

  • California Barrel Cactus13 obs
  • Mojave Desert Tortoise6 obs
  • Littleleaf Rhatany5 obs
  • Creosote Bush5 obs
  • Mojave Yucca5 obs
  • Common Fishhook Cactus5 obs
  • Beavertail Pricklypear4 obs
  • Desert Horned Lizard4 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357555084

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