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The Belmont Mountains are a 25 mi (40 km) long, arid, low elevation
mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have aris ...
about 50 mi west of
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in the northern
Sonoran Desert The Sonoran Desert () is a hot desert and ecoregion in North America that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the Southwestern United States (in Arizona and California). It ...
, north of the
Gila River The Gila River (; O'odham ima Keli Akimel or simply Akimel, Quechan: Haa Siʼil, Maricopa language: Xiil) is a tributary of the Colorado River flowing through New Mexico and Arizona in the United States. The river drains an arid watershed of ...
. The range is in the south of a region of two parallel washes; the
Bouse Wash Bouse Wash is one of the larger eastern-bank dry washes that enter the Colorado River in the Lower Colorado River Valley. It is located in La Paz County, extreme western Arizona. Geography Bouse Wash is located on the north rim of the La Posa P ...
flows northwest to the
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, and the Centennial Wash flows southeast to meet the Gila River.


Description

The Belmont Mountains are a northwest by southeast trending range, mostly of low hills; the range curves westwards at the west end. At the west, the range is partially connected to the
Big Horn Mountains The Bighorn Mountains ( or ) are a mountain range in northern Wyoming and southern Montana in the United States, forming a northwest-trending spur from the Rocky Mountains extending approximately northward on the Great Plains. They are separa ...
to the southwest, and between the two ranges is the
Hummingbird Springs Wilderness The Hummingbird Springs Wilderness is a wilderness administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The wilderness is located in the northwest of Maricopa County in northern regions of the central Sonoran Desert of Arizona. The wilderness ...
. The wilderness takes up much of the Belmont's northwest, and the northeast half of the Big Horn's. Most of the rest of the small Big Horn Mountains is the Big Horn Mountains Wilderness. Valleys border both mountain ranges, to the northeast, and the southwest. The highest peak in the Belmont Mountains is
Sugarloaf Mountain Sugarloaf Mountain (, ) is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on a peninsula at the mouth of Guanabara Bay. Rising above the harbor, the peak is named for its resemblance to the traditional shape of concentrated refined loaf suga ...
, at , located at ; it is at the northeast of the Hummingbird Springs Wilderness. The center of the range is at Belmont Mountain, located at .Belmont Mountain Summit, mountainzone.com


Access

The north of the Belmont Range can be reached from
Aguila, Arizona Aguila is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. It is located on U.S. Route 60, west of Wickenburg and northeast of Wenden. Major economic activities include cantaloupe far ...
, on U.S. Route 60 in Arizona. The south of the range can be reached from
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, near Tonopah.


See also

* List of mountain ranges of Maricopa County, Arizona


References


External links


Hummingbird Springs Wilderness, Arizona Wilderness Areas – Public Lands

Belmont Mountain Summit, mountainzone.com, (coordinates)
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