The Eagle Mountains are located in northeastern Riverside County, California, U.S.
Geography
The range lies to the north of Interstate 10 off Riverside County Route R2 and west— and southwest of the Coxcomb Mountains. They are the location of Eagle Mountain, the Kaiser Steel Eagle Mountain iron mine's ghost town, and one of the largest open pit iron ore mines, now closed, in the country.
The Eagle Mountains lie partly within eastern Joshua Tree National Park. The mountains reach an elevation of 1,631-meter (5,351 ft) inside the park, at the western end of the range near Cottonwood Pass.
They are in the Colorado Desert region of the Sonoran Desert, approaching the transition to the higher Mojave Desert at coordinates 33°51′02″N 115°33′22″W / 33.85056°N 115.55611°W / 33.85056; -115.55611Coordinates: 33°51′02″N 115°33′22″W / 33.85056°N 115.55611°W / 33.85056; -115.55611.[1]
See also
- Mountain ranges of the Colorado Desert
- Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert
- Protected areas of the Mojave Desert
- Protected areas of the Colorado Desert
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- Año Nuevo Island
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- Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center
- Burns Piñon Ridge
- Carpinteria Salt Marsh
- Chickering American River
- Coal Oil Point
- Dawson Los Monos Canyon
- Eagle Lake Field Station
- Elliott Chaparral
- Emerson Oaks
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- James San Jacinto Mountains
- Jenny Pygmy Forest
- Jepson Prairie
- Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh
- Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino
- Landels-Hill Big Creek
- McLaughlin
- Motte Rimrock
- Quail Ridge
- Sagehen Creek Field Station
- San Joaquin Freshwater Marsh
- Santa Cruz Island
- Scripps Coastal
- Sedgwick
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- Steele Burnand Anza-Borrego
- Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains
- Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center
- Valentine Eastern Sierra
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