__NOTOC__ The Bare Mountain Range is a mountain range in southern Nye County, Nevada, in the western United States. Bare Mountain and Wildcat Peak are the high points of the range.
Geography The Bare Mountain Range is a short range, about long, trending northwest by southeast. The north end of the range borders Beatty on the Amargosa River. The Bullfrog Hills lie to the northwest of Beatty. Yucca Mountain lies about nine miles to the east across Crater Flat. The range borders the central and northeast Amargosa Desert, which also trends northwest by southeast. U.S. Route 95 runs in the Amargosa Valley along the south edge of the range and turns at Beatty to continue north through Oasis Valley.Beatty, Nevada–California, 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1986
The highest peak of the range is Bare Mountain,Bare Mountain Range, mountainzone.com of the same name, at . In the southeast of the range, Wildcat Peak rises to
Bare Mountain Range was descriptively named for the bare summits.
See also Amargosa toad
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Bare Mountain region- features, photographs, placenames