Bare Mountain Range (Nevada)


The Bare Mountain Range is a mountain range in southern Nye County, Nevada, in the United States. Bare Mountain and Wildcat Peak are the high points of the range.

Range summary

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.
The highest peak of the range is Bare Mountain, 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.