The San Augustin Mountains are a small mountain
subrange located at the southern terminus of the
San Andres Mountains
The San Andres Mountains are a mountain range in the southwestern U.S. state of New Mexico, in the counties of Socorro, Sierra, and Doña Ana. The range extends about north to south, but are only about wide at their widest. The highest peak ...
east of
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Las Cruces (; ; lit. 'the crosses') is the List of municipalities in New Mexico, second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico and the county seat, seat of Doña Ana County, New Mexico, Doña Ana County. As of the 2020 United States ce ...
.
Description
The San Augustin Mountains are only about an long range, trending slightly northeast. The southern border is San Augustin Pass, where
U.S. Route 70
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goes from Las Cruces and Organ and turns northeast through White Sands to meet
Alamogordo
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.
The north of the range is delimited by Bear Canyon, an east-west canyon with its outlet to the northeast. Also north is the San Andres National Wildlife Refuge which takes up about a 30 mi stretch of the San Andres Mountains ridgeline.
The high Black Mountain section is on the southeast of Bear Canyon and is separated northeast from the ridgeline of the San Augustins.
Communities
Organ, New Mexico, Organ lies at the southwest foothills; the townsite, White Sands, New Mexico, White Sands, NM lies to the southeast. The mountains are southwest of the Tularosa Basin, Tularosa Valley.
Peaks
The ridgeline of the San Augustin Mountains has the range's highpoint, Bear Peak, at the north, and the south is terminated by San Augustin Peak, at . Black Mountain at , is in the northeast, and an outlier peak at the northwest is Quartzite Mountain, at . Another outlier mountain is on the southeast, Mineral Hill at . The highpoint, Bear Peak is located at .
Bear Mountain, mountainzone
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See also
* San Andres Mountains
The San Andres Mountains are a mountain range in the southwestern U.S. state of New Mexico, in the counties of Socorro, Sierra, and Doña Ana. The range extends about north to south, but are only about wide at their widest. The highest peak ...
* San Andres National Wildlife Refuge
References
External links
Peaks
San Augustin Peak, (coordinates)Bear Peak Summit, mountainzone.com (coordinates)
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San Augustin Mountains
San Augustin Mountains, mountainzone.com, elevation, (incorrect)
Mountain ranges of Doña Ana County, New Mexico
Mountain ranges of New Mexico
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