The Palomas Mountains (

Yavapai The Yavapai ( ) are a Native American tribe in Arizona. Their Yavapai language belongs to the Upland Yuman branch of the proposed Hokan language family. Today Yavapai people are enrolled in the following federally recognized tribes: * Fort ...

: Hakiñur) is a

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 ...

in 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 ...

of southwest

Arizona Arizona is a U.S. state, state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. It also borders Nevada to the nort ...

. Palomas is the Spanish word for white-winged doves which were found in the settlement of Palomas in the 1890's. The range is found around NE of Yuma, Arizona, and around north of the town of Dateland, in eastern Yuma County. Over a narrow valley toward the north are the

Tank Mountains The Tank Mountains (Yavapai language, Yavapai: Hakimatava) are a mountain range in the Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona; the range is part of the southeastern border of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. The Tank Mountains are east–west tren ...

, which frame a nonstop belt of bedrock west into the

Kofa Mountains The Kofa Mountains (Yavapai: Wi:kasayeo) of Yuma and La Paz counties in Arizona is the central mountain range of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. The range lies about 60 miles northeast of Yuma in the southwestern part of the state. Kofa W ...

. Toward the west lies Neversweat Ridge, the easternmost known presentation of Orocopia Schist. Toward the east and northeast is the Palomas Plain, and toward the south is 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 ...

. Accessibility to the range is by and large great. A large portion of the dirt roads are in great condition and can be partly crossed by a two-wheel drive vehicle. In any case, since they cross numerous sandy washes the streets are passable only with a four-wheel drive vehicle. The western portion of the range is within the

Yuma Proving Ground Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) is a United States Army series of environmentally specific test centers with its Yuma Test Center (YTC) being one of the largest military installations in the world. It is subordinate to the U.S. Army Test and Evalua ...

and consent must be acquired before entering.

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