Blue Mountain

Blue Mountain is a mountain in the Crystal Range, a subrange of the Sierra Nevada. It is west of Lake Tahoe on the western boundary of the Desolation Wilderness in El Dorado County, California.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Price and Wrights Lake.

Mount Price

Peak

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Mount Price is a mountain in the Sierra Nevada at the southern end of the Crystal Range, and southwest of Lake Tahoe. The summit is located in the Desolation Wilderness and the El Dorado County, California.

Wrights Lake

Lake

Photo: Phreakdigital, Public domain.

Wrights Lake is in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, west of Lake Tahoe on the western border of the Desolation Wilderness. It can be reached via Wrights Road off U.S. Route 50 and the Ice House Road.

Pyramid Peak

Peak

Photo: Phreakdigital, Public domain.

Pyramid Peak is a mountain in the California's Sierra Nevada in the Crystal Range to the west of Lake Tahoe. It is the highest point in the Desolation Wilderness.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Strawberry and Sciots Camp.

Strawberry

Village

Photo: Barabas, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Strawberry is a small unincorporated community on the South Fork American River, 3.25 miles south-southwest of Pyramid Peak, along U.S. Route 50 in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.

Sciots Camp

Neighborhood

Sciots Camp is a small unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California, United States. It is located on the South Fork of the American River, 4 miles south of Pyramid Peak, at an elevation of 5659 feet. Sciots Camp is situated 5 miles southeast of Blue Mountain.

Blue Mountain

Type: Peak with an elevation of 8,717 feet
Description: mountain in the Sierra Nevada
Categories: mountain and landform
Location: El Dorado County, Gold Country, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.84824° or 38° 50′ 54″ north

Longitude

-120.19769° or 120° 11′ 52″ west

Elevation

8,717 feet (2,657 metres)

Open location code

84CXRRX2+7W

OpenStreetMap ID

node 358796971

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

5329540

Wikidata ID

Q4929491

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Satellite Map

Discover Blue Mountain from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Ladin—“Blue Mountain” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Blue Mountain (bukid sa Estados Unidos, California, El Dorado County)”
Cebuano: “Blue Mountain”
Dutch: “Blue Mountain”
Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بلو”
Hindi: “ब्लू माउंटेन”
Japanese: “ブルーマウンテン (カリフォルニア州の山)”
Japanese: “ブルーマウンテン”
Ladin: “Blue Mountain”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Twin Lakes and Agassiz.

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