Southwest
Nevada
Churchill

Sand Mountain

Sand Mountain is a singing sand dune 20 miles east of along U.S. Route 50. The dune is two miles long and 600 feet high. The full sand field area is 3.25 square miles.
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Photo: Rick Cooper, CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 4,360 feet
  • Description: mountain in Nevada, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Sand Mountains”, “Sand Sand Springs Sand Dune”, “Sand Springs Dune”, and “Singing Mountain”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sand Springs Station.

Ruins
Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a historic site in that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. A Pony Express station existed there in 1860.

Sand Mountain

Latitude
39.30853° or 39° 18′ 31″ north
Longitude
-118.39708° or 118° 23′ 50″ west
Elevation
4,360 feet (1,329 metres)
Open location code
85F38J53+C5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 357549302
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
5511764
Wiki­data ID
Q7415839
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Ladin—“Sand Mountain” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Sand Mountain (bukid sa Estados Unidos, Nevada)”
  • Cebuano: “Sand Mountain”
  • Dutch: “Sand Mountain”
  • French: “Sand Mountain”
  • Japanese: “サンド・マウンテン”
  • Ladin: “Sand Mountain”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Sand Mountain and Sand Mountain Recreation Area.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sand Mountain”. Photo: Rick Cooper, CC BY 2.0.