The Eagle Mountains are located in northeastern
Riverside County, California
Riverside County is a County (United States), county located in the Southern California, southern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, its population was 2,418,185, making it the fourth-most ...
, U.S.
Geography
The range lies to the north of
Interstate 10 (California)
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off
County Route R2 (California) and west— and southwest of the
Coxcomb Mountains. They are the location of
Eagle Mountain, the
Kaiser Steel
Kaiser Steel was a steel company and integrated steel mill near Fontana, California. Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser founded the company on December 1, 1941, and workers fired up the plant's first blast furnace, named "Big Bess" after Kaiser's ...
Eagle Mountain iron mine's
ghost town
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, 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
Joshua Tree National Park is a List of national parks of the United States, US National Park located in southeastern California, straddling north-central Riverside County, California, Riverside County and part of southern San Bernardino County, ...
. The mountains reach an elevation of inside the park, at the western end of the range near Cottonwood Pass.
They are in the
Colorado Desert
The Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert located in California, United States, and Baja California, Mexico. It encompasses approximately , including the heavily irrigated Coachella, Imperial and Mexicali valleys. It is home to ...
region of the
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 ...
, approaching the transition to the higher
Mojave Desert
The Mojave Desert (; ; ) is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains and Transverse Ranges in the Southwestern United States. Named for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous Mohave people, it is located pr ...
at coordinates .
See also
*
List of Sonoran Desert wildflowers
The wildflowers of the Sonoran Desert typically appear after a rain, some after the winter rains, and some after the summer "monsoons."
''Amsinckia menziesii''
* Common name: common fiddleneck
* Flowers bloom March through May
Image:Amsinckia i ...
*
List of flora of the Sonoran Desert Region by common name
*
North American desert flora
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Etymology
The word ''north'' is ...
*
Joshua Tree National Park wiki-index
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Mountain ranges of the Colorado Desert
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Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert
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Protected areas of the Mojave Desert
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Protected areas of the Colorado Desert
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References
External links
Official Joshua Tree National Park website
Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert
Mountain ranges of the Colorado Desert
Mountain ranges of Riverside County, California
Mountain ranges of Southern California
Joshua Tree National Park
Protected areas of the Colorado Desert
Protected areas of Riverside County, California
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