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Northern Sierra Nevada

Range Type	Geographically-defined sub-range
Highest Point	Mount Lola (9148 ft/2788 m)
Countries	United States
States/Provinces	California (99%), Nevada (1%) (numbers are approximate percentage of range area)
Area	8,009 sq mi / 20,742 sq km Area may include lowland areas
Extent	115 mi / 185 km North-South 125 mi / 201 km East-West
Center Lat/Long	39° 35' N; 120° 55' W
Map Link	Microsoft Bing Map
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Map of Northern Sierra Nevada
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Note: Range borders shown on map are an approximation and are not authoritative.
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Other Ranges: To go to pages for other ranges either click on the map above, or on range names in the hierarchy snapshot below, which show the parent, siblings, and children of the Northern Sierra Nevada.

Sierra Nevada	Level 3 (Parent)
Northern Sierra Nevada	Level 4
Northwestern Sierra Nevada	Level 5 (Child)
Keddie-Grizzly-Dixie Area	Level 5 (Child)
Diamond Mountains	Level 5 (Child)
Sacramento Valley Buttes	Level 5 (Child)
Central North Sierra	Level 5 (Child)
North Donner Pass Area	Level 5 (Child)
Bald Mountain Range-Sierra Valley	Level 5 (Child)
Lake Tahoe-Sonora Pass Sierra Nevada	Level 4 (Sibling)
Yosemite-Ritter Sierra Nevada	Level 4 (Sibling)
Central Sierra Nevada	Level 4 (Sibling)
Sequoia Sierra Nevada	Level 4 (Sibling)
Southern Sierra Nevada	Level 4 (Sibling)

Major Peaks of the Northern Sierra Nevada

Ten Highest Peaks
Rank	Peak Name	ft	m	Range5
1.	Mount Lola	9148	2788	North Donner Pass Area
2.	Castle Peak	9103	2775	North Donner Pass Area
3.	Basin Peak	9017	2748	North Donner Pass Area
4.	Carpenter Ridge	8930	2722	North Donner Pass Area
5.	Peak 8812	8812	2686	North Donner Pass Area
6.	Babbitt Peak	8760	2670	Bald Mountain Range-Sierra Valley
7.	Peak 8720	8720+	2658+	North Donner Pass Area
8.	Sierra Buttes	8590	2618	Central North Sierra
9.	Verdi Peak	8444	2574	Bald Mountain Range-Sierra Valley
10.	English Mountain	8373	2552	North Donner Pass Area
Sub-peaks are excluded from this list. List may not be complete, since only summits in the PBC Database are included.

Child Range High Points
Rank	Peak Name	ft	m	Range5
1.	Mount Lola	9148	2788	North Donner Pass Area
2.	Babbitt Peak	8760	2670	Bald Mountain Range-Sierra Valley
3.	Sierra Buttes	8590	2618	Central North Sierra
4.	Mount Ingalls	8372	2552	Keddie-Grizzly-Dixie Area
5.	Adams Peak	8199	2499	Diamond Mountains
6.	Butt Mountain	7870	2399	Northwestern Sierra Nevada
7.	South Butte	2120+	646+	Sacramento Valley Buttes

Photos of Peaks in the Northern Sierra Nevada

Mount Lola Atop Mt. Lola, highest point of Sierra County and the Tahoe National Forest (2017-08-13). Photo by Martin Pyne. Click here for larger-size photo.	Castle Peak Castle Peak from about .25 mi from the trailhead. Almost 2,000 feet above (2015-06-07). Photo by Richard Finn. Click here for larger-size photo.
Basin Peak My late wife, Marcia, with our 19 month old son, John Possum, atop Basin with Castle in the background, having hiked in from the south past Peter Grub Hut (2002-07-20). Photo by John Sarna. Click here for larger-size photo.	Babbitt Peak The fire lookout atop Babbitt, still actively manned in August 2014 (2014-08-30). Photo by Dan Baxter. Click here for larger-size photo.
Sierra Buttes Ladder heading to the lookout on Sierra Buttes (2013-06-22). Photo by Shawn Burrell. Click here for larger-size photo.	Verdi Peak Abandoned Verdi Peak Lookout (2019-11-08). Photo by Marc Belanger. Click here for larger-size photo.
English Mountain English Mountain from Mount Lola (2018-10-22). Photo by Bill Carpenter. Click here for larger-size photo.	Mount Ingalls The summit of Mt Ingalls, as seen from NF-24N09, next to Nye Meadows (2017-09-01). Photo by Richard Hensley. Click here for larger-size photo.
Ladybug Peak View of Ladybug Peak from Verdi Peak, with Babbitt in the distance (2019-11-08). Photo by Marc Belanger. Click here for larger-size photo.	Dixie Mountain View NNW toward summit and fire watch lookout atop Dixie Mtn (2016-07-10). Photo by Joseph Del Grosso. Click here for larger-size photo.

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