Box Springs Mountain
| Box Springs Mountain | |
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 Box Springs Mountain
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 3083+ feet (940+ m) NAVD 88 |
| Prominence | 1,160 ft (354 m) |
| Coordinates | 33°57′42″N 117°16′49″W / 33.9616831°N 117.2803191°WCoordinates: 33°57′42″N 117°16′49″W / 33.9616831°N 117.2803191°W |
| Geography | |
| Location | Riverside County, California, U.S. |
| Parent range | Box Springs Mountains |
| Topo map | USGS Riverside East |
Box Springs Mountain is the highest peak in the Box Springs Mountains range, at 3083+ feet (940+ m) in elevation. The mountain is located in northwestern Riverside County, Southern California.
The mountain is east of downtown Riverside, and northwest of Moreno Valley, a partial border between the two large cities. Most of the mountain is part of the Box Springs Mountain Reserve, a 1,155-acre (4.67 km2) park operated by the county.UC Riverside manages the Box Springs Reserve adjacent to its campus, part of the University of California Natural Reserve System. It protects a transitional ecotone zone between coastal sage scrub and chamise chaparral.
Because the mountain is one of the more prominent features in the Inland Empire (Riverside-San Bernardino urbanized area), the summit is used for numerous telecommunication towers, including transmission towers for the KOLA 99.9 and KGGI 99.1 radio stations.
Box Springs Mountain is said to have gotten its name during the 1880s. Teamsters with horse-drawn wagons would stop at a natural spring in an arroyo of the range to water their horses. A teamster surrounded it with a box to maintain water access, later giving the spring and range their names.
The letter "C" is embedded on the Riverside-facing side. The "Big C" was built in 1957, mostly by UC Riverside students. E.L. Yeager donated the materials for it. The "C" is approximately 1,500 feet above the UCR campus, and was the world's largest poured-concrete block letter, 132 feet high by 70 feet wide. The "C" is often vandalized with graffiti.
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