Mohave Mountains

Mohave Mountains
View looking southwest from Lake Havasu City area — south portion of Mohave Mountains
Highest point
Peak	Crossman Peak (center-south (see text))
Elevation	5,103 ft (1,555 m)
Dimensions
Length	18 mi (29 km) NW-SE
Width	6 mi (9.7 km)
Geography
Mohave Mountains in Arizona
Country	United States
State	Arizona
Regions	(southeast)-Mojave Desert (northwest)-Sonoran Desert
County	Mohave
Communities	Lake Havasu City, AZ, Franconia, AZ and Lake Havasu Heights
Range coordinates	34°35′N 114°14′W / 34.58°N 114.23°W / 34.58; -114.23Coordinates: 34°35′N 114°14′W / 34.58°N 114.23°W / 34.58; -114.23
Borders on	Colorado River w/ Lake Havasu-W Sacramento Valley & Wash-NNE & NE Dutch Flat (Arizona)-NE & E Bill Williams Mountains-SE

The Mohave Mountains are a small 18-mi (29 km) long mountain range of northwest Arizona. The range is a northwest trending range in southwest Mohave County that parallels a southeast-flowing stretch of the Colorado River, the Arizona-California border. The range also forms the southwest border of a flatland region to its east and north, namely, Dutch Flat which lies east, at the south end of Sacramento Valley. Lake Havasu City, AZ on the Colorado, lays opposite the southwest flank of the range, where the London Bridge was reconstructed at Lake Havasu.

Interstate 40 traverses east from Needles, California adjacent the north of the range through the flatland region, and turns north through the Sacramento Valley to Kingman, Arizona.

The northwest terminus of the range merges into hills and a rocky region on the east shore of the Colorado River called The Needles. The Topock Gorge of the Colorado and The Needles lay at the east border of the Chemehuevi Mountains of California; both the Chemehuevi and Sacramento Mountains force the Colorado River to flow southeasterly.

The Mohave Mountains are mostly northwest-trending with a slight curve to the east at the south terminus, into the southwest region of Dutch Flat. There is no central ridgeline; instead the northwest becomes lower elevation hills, bordering The Needles region. The center and south of the range is centered around a massif which contains the range highpoint, Crossman Peak, at 5,103 feet (1,555 m).