This list is about the Sierra Nevada of California, United States.

Principal mountains

List of mountains over 14,000 ft (4250 m) with 300 ft (90 m) of prominence:

Mount Whitney 14,505 ft (4421 m) Mount Williamson 14,403 ft (4390 m) North Palisade 14,242 ft (4341 m) Mount Sill 14,153 ft (4314 m) Mount Russell 14,094 ft (4296 m) Split Mountain 14,064 ft (4286 m) Mount Langley 14,025 ft (4280 m) Mount Tyndall 14,019 ft (4273 m) Middle Palisade 14,012 ft (4271 m) Mount Muir 14,012 ft (4271 m)

Other notable peaks:

Lost Corner Mountain Mount Baxter Black Kaweah Castle Peak Cathedral Peak Johnson Peak, the highest mountain in Tuolumne Meadows El Capitan Mount Conness Mount Dana Mount Darwin Mount Davis Fresno Dome Mount Gibbs Half Dome Mount Hopkins Mount Humphreys Mount Huntington Lembert Dome Liberty Cap Mount Lyell Maggies Peaks Mammoth Mountain Matterhorn Peak The Minarets Mount Morgan Mount Morrison Pyramid Peak Red Kaweah Red Slate Mountain Mount Ritter Shuteye Peak Thunderbolt Peak Mount Tom

Subranges

Carson Range Cathedral Range Clark Range Crystal Range Great Western Divide Kaweah Peaks Ridge Palisades Ritter Range Sherwin Range

Counties in the Sierra

Alpine County, California Amador County, California Butte County, California Calaveras County, California El Dorado County, California Fresno County, California Inyo County, California Kern County, California Madera County, California Mariposa County, California Mono County, California Nevada County, California Placer County, California Plumas County, California Sierra County, California Tulare County, California Tuolumne County, California Yuba County, California The Carson Range (a spur of the Sierra) extends into Nevada: Douglas County, Nevada Carson City, Nevada Washoe County, Nevada

Principal rivers

American River Cosumnes River Feather River Kern River Kings River Merced River Mokelumne River Sacramento River San Joaquin River Stanislaus River Truckee River Tuolumne River Yuba River

Prominent Lakes

Lake Tahoe Bass Lake Beardsley Lake Cherry Lake Mono Lake New Melones Lake Pinecrest Lake Tioga Lake Tulloch Lake Twain Harte Lake

Other natural features

Devil's Postpile Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne River Hetch Hetchy Valley Kings Canyon Long Valley Caldera Owens Valley San Joaquin Valley Sacramento Valley Tuolumne Meadows Yosemite Valley List of waterfalls in Yosemite National Park

National parks and monuments

North to south: Yosemite National Park Kings Canyon National Park Sequoia National Park Giant Sequoia National Monument Eastern side of the Sierra: Devil's Postpile National Monument

National forests

Eldorado National Forest Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest Inyo National Forest Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit Plumas National Forest Sequoia National Forest Sierra National Forest Stanislaus National Forest Tahoe National Forest

Wilderness areas

A total of over in 26 separate areas

Ansel Adams Bright Star Bucks Lake Carson-Iceberg Chimney Peak Desolation Dinkey Lakes Domeland Emigrant Golden Trout Granite Chief Hoover Jennie Lakes John Krebs John Muir Kaiser Kiavah Mokelumne Monarch Mount Rose Owens Peak Owens River Headwaters Sacatar Trail Sequoia-Kings Canyon South Sierra Yosemite

State Parks

California

Auburn State Recreation Area Bodie State Historic Park Burton Creek State Park Calaveras Big Trees State Park California State Mining and Mineral Museum Park Property Columbia State Historic Park D. L. Bliss State Park Donner Memorial State Park Emerald Bay State Park Empire Mine State Historic Park Folsom Lake State Recreation Area Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park Grover Hot Springs State Park Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park Kings Beach State Recreation Area Lake Valley State Recreation Area Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park Millerton Lake State Recreation Area Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve Prairie City State Vehicular Recreation Area Railtown 1897 State Historic Park South Yuba River State Park Stone Lake Park Property Sugar Pine Point Light Tahoe State Recreation Area Ward Creek Park Property Washoe Meadows State Park Wassama Round House State Historic Park

Nevada Dayton State Park Lake Tahoe-Nevada State Park Mormon Station State Historic Park Washoe Lake State Park

Trails and routes

John Muir Trail Pacific Crest Trail Four Mile Trail Hetch Hetchy to Lake Vernon Trail High Sierra Trail Independence Trail Lower Sagehen Creek Hiking Trail Mist Trail Mount Whitney Trail Sierra High Route Silver Knapsack Trail Tahoe Rim Trail Tahoe–Yosemite Trail Theodore Solomons Trail Trans-Sierra Highway

Giant sequoia

Converse Basin Grove Boole (tree) General Sherman Tree General Grant (tree) General Noble (tree) Giant Forest The President (tree) Lincoln (tree) Nelder Grove Mariposa Grove Mark Twain Tree Stagg (tree) Redwood Mountain Grove

Mountain passes

Carson Pass Donner Pass Ebbetts Pass Forester Pass Fredonyer Pass Glen Pass Morgan Summit Muir Pass Pacific Grade Summit Sherman Pass Sonora Pass Tehachapi Pass Tioga Pass Walker Pass

Fires

Cedar Fire (2003) Rim Fire (2013) Thomas Fire (2017) Mendocino Complex (2018) August Complex fire (2020) North Complex Fire (2020) LNU Lightning Complex fires (2020) SCU Lightning Complex fires (2020) SQF Complex (2020) Creek Fire (2020) Caldor Fire (2021) Dixie Fire (2021) Oak Fire (2022) Washburn Fire (2022)

People related to the Sierra Nevada

Ansel Adams Lafayette Bunnell Kit Carson Galen Clark Norman Clyde C.C. Curtis Francis P. Farquhar James Mason Hutchings Joseph LeConte Joseph Nisbet LeConte John Muir Jim Savage Carl Sharsmith Theodore Solomons Walter A. Starr, Jr. Chief Tenaya Snowshoe Thompson Josiah Whitney

Relevant list articles List of first ascents in the Sierra Nevada (U.S.) List of Sierra Nevada road passes List of Yosemite destinations

See also Bibliography of the Sierra Nevada

References