Bristol Mountains

Bristol Mountains
Mountain Range
Southeast end of Bristol Mountains as seen from Amboy Crater. The town of Amboy can be seen on the right side of the image
Country United States
State California
Region Mojave Desert
District San Bernardino County
Coordinates
Highest point
 - elevation 1,030 m (3,379 ft)
Timezone Pacific (UTC-8)
 - summer (DST) PDT (UTC-7)
Topo map USGS East of Broadwell Lake
Location of the Bristol Mountains in California [1]
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The Bristol Mountains are found in the Mojave Desert of California, USA, just west of Mojave National Preserve. The range, which reaches an elevation of 3,874 feet (1,181 m), is located in San Bernardino County, and crosses Interstate 40 between Ludlow and the Granite Mountains. At the southern end of the range lies the town of Amboy, the Amboy Crater, and Bristol Dry Lake.

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Bristol Mountains Wilderness Area

Most of the Bristol Mountains is in a Federally designated Wilderness and lies within either the Bristol Mountains Wilderness Area or the Kelso Dunes Wilderness Area.[2][3]

The remainder of the range is designated for Wilderness status in the proposed California Desert Protection Act of 2010.[4][5]

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Notes

  1. ^ "Bristol Mountains". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:239689. Retrieved 2009-05-04. 
  2. ^ http://www.blm.gov/ca/pa/wilderness/wa/areas/bristol_mountains.html . accessed 6/20/2010
  3. ^ http://www.blm.gov/ca/pa/wilderness/wa/areas/kelso_dunes.html . accessed 6/20/2010
  4. ^ http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=14d49cae-7398-4d7e-8693-40ed19b44299
  5. ^ http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=4150f59f-238b-41d6-9289-f92fd1da6a85