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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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. 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″ northLongitude
-120.19769° or 120° 11′ 52″ westElevation
8,717 feet (2,657 metres)Open location code
84CXRRX2+7WOpenStreetMap ID
node 358796971OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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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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Highlights include Twin Lakes and Agassiz.
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