Piute Range

Piute Range
western flank View due west from Piute Valley
Highest point
Elevation	4,908 ft (1,496 m)
Dimensions
Length	20 mi (32 km) N-S
Geography
Country	United States
States	Nevada and California
Region	(East border)-Mojave National Preserve) ((southeast)-Mojave Desert)
Districts	San Bernardino County, CA and Clark County, NV
Borders on	Lanfair Valley-SW Eldorado Valley-NE Piute Valley-E Castle & New York Mountains-W & NW McCullough Range-NNW-(water divide)
Topo map	USGS East of Grotto Hills

Piute Range
Piute Range
Coordinates: 35°12′54″N 115°0′18″W / 35.21500°N 115.00500°W / 35.21500; -115.00500Coordinates: 35°12′54″N 115°0′18″W / 35.21500°N 115.00500°W / 35.21500; -115.00500

The Piute Range is located in the Mojave Desert, primarily in northeast San Bernardino County, California, United States, with a north portion in Nevada. Most of the range is the eastern border of the Mojave National Preserve, a National Park Service natural area and park.

The mountains lie to the east of Lanfair Valley and southeast of the New York Mountains and Castle Mountains, and northeast of the Piute Mountains. They trend in a north-south direction, and form the western perimeter of the north-south Piute Valley which extends north past Cal-Nev-Ari to Searchlight.

Fort Piute, one of a chain of military stations constructed to protect travellers on the Mojave Road from San Bernardino across the Mojave Desert to Fort Mojave on the Colorado River, lies at the southeastern end of the range near Piute Spring.

The southern end of the extensive McCullough Range converges with four valleys and three mountain ranges at a water divide point. West of the McCullough's lie the endorheic Roach and Ivanpah Dry Lakes of Ivanpah Valley; the valley extends north into Las Vegas' southwest, a tributary to the Las Vegas Wash. Ivanpah Valley turns southeast to meet the water divide point. Northeast of the water divide point is the southwest Eldorado Valley, also endorheic with its Eldorado Dry Lake. Southwest, the Piute Valley drains south, then Piute Wash turns east and descends steeply at the Dead Mountains to its outfall at the Colorado River and Needles.