Lanfair Valley
| Lanfair Valley | |
| Valley | |
 Hart Ghost Town
(northeast Lanfair Valley) |
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| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| State | California |
| Region | Mojave National Preserve ((southeast)-Mojave Desert) |
| Municipality | San Bernardino County, CA |
| Borders on | New York & Castle Mtns-N Piute Range-E Woods Mountains-S Pinto Valley-W |
| Communities | Cima, CA–(Kelso, CA), Lanfair, California |
| Highest point | |
| - location | "region of Lanfair", ~ center valley |
| - elevation | 4,045 ft (1,233 m) |
| Length | 30 mi (48 km), ? |
| Timezone | Pacific (UTC-8) |
| - summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) |
| Topo map | USGS Castle Peaks |
| Lanfair V. | |
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| Valley | |
 Lanfair V.
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| Coordinates: 35°17′20″N 115°6′12″W / 35.28889°N 115.10333°WCoordinates: 35°17′20″N 115°6′12″W / 35.28889°N 115.10333°W |
Lanfair Valley is located in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California near the Nevada state line. It is bounded on the north by the New York Mountains and Castle Mountains, on the east by the Piute Range, and on the south by the Woods Mountains and Vontrigger Hills. Joshua Trees can be found in most of the valley. Elevation is 4,045 feet.
The valley proper is drained southeastwards, then due south by the Sacramento Wash; the wash then turns due-east and combines with the Piute Wash drainage (south out of Nevada), to immediately enter the west bank of the Colorado River. The dual valley drainage is a U-shape, and the first major dry wash drainage from the west, into the Colorado, south of Lake Mead.
The Old Mojave Road traverses the valley center, west to east. It passes eastwards just south of center at the Piute Range, and then through a central-southern stretch of the Piute Valley to its eastern terminus at Bullhead City Park, west bank of the Colorado River opposite Bullhead City, AZ.
The Castle Mountains National Monument is part of the north and northeast perimeter of Lanfair Valley, (its watershed). The Castle Mountains (California) proper is on the water divide between the headwaters of a south-flowing section of Lanfair Valley, and a northwesterly section of the south-flowing Piute Wash of Piute Valley (the similar south-trending valley and wash adjacent east).
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