| Buckskin Mountains (Arizona) | |
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 (View south) At photo left: Buckskin Mountains (Arizona) andCastle Rock (Arizona) formation in the Buckskins, west-southwest region. Large massif at photo bottom, is theWhipple Mountains. | |
| Highest point | |
| Peak | Battleship Peak |
| Elevation | 2,569 ft (783 m) |
| Coordinates | 34°04′28″N113°48′29″W / 34.074467°N 113.808027°W /34.074467; -113.808027 |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 30 mi (48 km) E-W & (SW x NE) |
| Geography | |
  Buckskin Mountains (Arizona) Buckskin Mountains inArizona | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Arizona |
| Regions | Maria fold and thrust belt,Sonoran Desert andMojave Desert |
| County | La Paz |
| Communities | Bouse, AZ andParker Dam, CA |
| Range coordinates | 34°10′12″N113°50′46″W / 34.17000°N 113.84611°W /34.17000; -113.84611 |
| Borders on | Bill Williams Mountains,Rawhide Mountains,Bill Williams River,Butler Valley,Harcuvar Mountains,Gibraltar Mountain Wilderness,Buckskin Mountain State Park andAlamo Lake State Park |
TheBuckskin Mountains is a mountain range inLa Paz County,Arizona, United States.[1] The range lies just east of the north–southColorado River, and borders south of the east–west, west-flowingBill Williams River.
The range is part of a three-range sequence of mildly arc-shaped ranges, and two intermountain valleys in theMaria fold and thrust belt, a region in westernArizona and southeastSouthern California, with the Colorado River flowing south through the western part of the belt. The fold-and-thrust-belt region contains numerous plains, valleys, and mountain ranges, about 30 landforms in all.
The Buckskin Mountains also extend west into a section abutting the Colorado River.Buckskin Mountain State Park borders the south of the Bill Williams River.
The southeast section of the Buckskin Mountains are part of a three-mountain range thrust-faulted system, with theHarcuvar andHarquahala Mountains. The highest peak in the section is Battleship Peak, 2,569 feet (783 m),[2] at the southwest end, and directly northeast ofBouse in theRanegras Plain, and theBouse Wash Drainage.
The west end of the mountains abut the north–southColorado River. Located here is theGibraltar Mountain Wilderness, withGibraltar Mountain, at 1,566 feet (477 m).
The entire north perimeter of the range is the Bill Williams River.Buckskin Mountain State Park is at its confluence in the northwest at the Colorado River. Abutting the Bill Williams in the center is theSwansea Wilderness; the northeast contains theRawhide Mountains Wilderness on both sides of the river. The northeast of the range bordersAlamo Lake State Park-(Alamo Lake), which also borders theRawhide Mountains on the lake's northwest.
Another peak in the central-west, away from the range's east–west centerline, at the south isPlanet Peak, at 3,141 feet (957 m). Planet Peak is directly adjacent at the northeast of theCactus Plain and theEast Cactus Plain Wilderness. The most easily identifiable Peak is "Black Peak," at 1,594 feet (486 m) to the South East. It is known to locals as "P Mountain" due to the large white "P" painted on its west side by the nearby town ofParker.
The major mountain ranges that are thrustednorthwesterly in theMaria fold and thrust belt region are, from north to south:
Some of the thirty landforms in the fold-and-thrust-belt listed in a circular path around these three ranges are: 1. NE,Alamo Lake State Park, NE Buckskin Mtns; 2. Access roads fromU.S. Route 93, northwest, dirt, and southwest,Arizona State Route 71 terminating atAguila, Arizona, at the northeast of the Harquahala's; 3. Southeast of the Harquahalas, three mountain ranges, and the Hassayampa and Harquahala Plains-(Harquahala Valley); 4. The southwest and west perimeter of the three ranges is theBouse Wash Drainage; the drainage is in the Ranegras Plain, but two small ranges, and the Bouse Hills abut the perimeter as well; 5. The northwest abuts theCactus Plain and theCactus Plain Wilderness; 6. The northwest also has the Buckskin Mountains extending into awestern section at the confluence of the Colorado and Bill Williams Rivers.Buckskin Mountain State Park is located here. 7. TheBill Williams River downstream fromAlamo Lake State Park is the northern border of the three ranges, as well as the de facto border of fold-and-thrust-belt. The river is also a dividing line between theMojave Desert north and northwest, and theSonoran Desert, south and southeast; in California, theColorado Desert subsection of the Sonoran Desert lies southwest.
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