A List of mountain ranges of the Sonoran Desert. Many of the mountains of southern Arizona

Arizona

Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...

 are included, excluding the Madrean Sky Island

Madrean sky islands

The Madrean Sky Islands are enclaves of Madrean pine-oak woodlands, found at higher elevations in a complex of small mountain ranges in southern and southeastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and northwestern Mexico. The sky islands are surrounded at lower elevations by the Sonoran and...

 ranges of southeast Arizona, extreme southwest New Mexico

New Mexico

New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...

, or northeast Sonora

Sonora

Sonora officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 72 municipalities; the capital city is Hermosillo....

, Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

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The Mojave Desert

Mojave Desert

The Mojave Desert occupies a significant portion of southeastern California and smaller parts of central California, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona, in the United States...

 lies to the northwest; also in the northwest and west are mountain ranges of the lower elevation Colorado Desert

Colorado Desert

California's Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert, which extends across southwest North America. The Colorado Desert region encompasses approximately , reaching from the Mexican border in the south to the higher-elevation Mojave Desert in the north and from the Colorado River in...

, (west of the north-south section of the Colorado River

Colorado River

The Colorado River , is a river in the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. The watershed of the Colorado River covers in parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states...

 of the Lower

Lower Colorado River Valley

The Lower Colorado River Valley is the river region of the lower Colorado River of the southwestern United States in North America that rises in the Rocky Mountains and has its outlet at the Colorado River Delta in the northern Sea of Cortez in northwestern Mexico, between the states of Baja...

 Colorado River

Colorado River

The Colorado River , is a river in the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. The watershed of the Colorado River covers in parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states...

 Valley

Lower Colorado River Valley

The Lower Colorado River Valley is the river region of the lower Colorado River of the southwestern United States in North America that rises in the Rocky Mountains and has its outlet at the Colorado River Delta in the northern Sea of Cortez in northwestern Mexico, between the states of Baja...

, in the southeast California deserts.)

Mountain ranges on the Baja California Peninsula

Baja California Peninsula

The Baja California peninsula , is a peninsula in northwestern Mexico. Its land mass separates the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California. The Peninsula extends from Mexicali, Baja California in the north to Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur in the south.The total area of the Baja California...

 east of the cordillera spine mountains are included. The middle section of the peninsula is the Vizcaino Desert; a few ranges are from the very south in Baja California Sur

Baja California Sur

Baja California Sur , is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. Before becoming a state on October 8, 1974, the area was known as the South Territory of Baja California. It has an area of , or 3.57% of the land mass of Mexico and comprises...

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Alphabetical list

• Agua Caliente Mountains
• Aguila Mountains
• Belmont Mountains
  Belmont Mountains
  The Belmont Mountains are a 25 mi long, arid, low elevation mountain range about 50 mi west of Phoenix, Arizona in the northern Sonoran Desert, north of the Gila River...
  
  
• Big Horn Mountains (Arizona)
• Big Maria Mountains
  Big Maria Mountains
  The Big Maria Mountains are located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of California, near the Colorado River and Arizona. The range lies between Blythe and Vidal, and west of U.S. Route 95 in California. The mountains are home to the Eagle Nest Mine and reach an elevation of 1,030 meters,...
  
  
  • Little Maria Mountains
    Little Maria Mountains
    The Little Maria Mountains are located in southeastern California in the United States. The range lies in a northwest-southeasterly direction east of the Palen Mountains and west of the Big Maria Mountains...
    
    
• Bryan Mountains
  Bryan Mountains
  The Bryan Mountains are a small mountain range in the northwestern Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona. The range is located in southeastern Yuma County, about 75 mi southeast of Yuma and about 35 mi west of Ajo. The range is approximately ten miles long and about three miles wide at...
  
  
• Buckskin Mountains
  Buckskin Mountains
  The Buckskin Mountains are a mountain range in western-central Arizona, USA. The range lies just east of the north-south Colorado River, and borders south of the east-west, west-flowing Bill Williams River....
  
  
• Bradshaw Mountains
  Bradshaw Mountains
  The Bradshaw Mountains are a mountain range in the Sonoran Desert of central Arizona, USA, named for brothers Isaac and William Bradshaw after their death, having been formerly known in English as the Silver Mountain Range.-History:...
  
  
• Cabeza Prieta Mountains
  Cabeza Prieta Mountains
  The Cabeza Prieta Mountains are a mountain range in the northwestern Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona. It is located in southern Yuma County, Arizona....
  
  
• Cargo Muchacho Mountains
  Cargo Muchacho Mountains
  The Cargo Muchacho Mountains are located in the southeast Colorado Desert in the Lower Colorado River Valley, in Imperial County, California in the United States.-Geography:...
  
  
• Castle Dome Mountains
  Castle Dome Mountains
  The Castle Dome Mountains are a mountain range in Yuma County, Arizona, within the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. Castle Dome peak, the high point of the range, is a prominent and distinctive landmark. The peak is high, and is located at . Castle Dome was named by American soldiers at old Fort...
  
  
• Chocolate Mountains
  Chocolate Mountains
  The Chocolate Mountains of California are located in Imperial County and Riverside County in the Colorado Desert in Southern California. The mountains stretch more than 60 miles in a northwest to southeast direction, and are located east of the Salton Sea and south and west of the Chuckwalla...
  
  
• Chocolate Mountains (Arizona)
  Chocolate Mountains (Arizona)
  The Chocolate Mountains of Arizona are located in the southwestern part of the state east of the Trigo Mountains and southwest of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. The mountains are located about 30 miles east of the Chocolate Mountains of California, but the two ranges are not connected. The...
  
  
• Chuckwalla Mountains
  Chuckwalla Mountains
  The Chuckwalla Mountains are a mountain range in the transition zone between the Colorado Desert—Sonoran Desert and the Mojave Desert, climatically and vegetationally, in Riverside County of southern California.-Geography:...
  
  
• Copper Mountains
  Copper Mountains
  The Copper Mountains is a minor north-south trending mountain range, only 8 miles long in southwestern Arizona in the southwestern Sonoran Desert....
  
  
• Crater Range
• Dome Rock Mountains
  Dome Rock Mountains
  The Dome Rock Mountains are a regionally short mountain range in southwestern Arizona in southern La Paz County. The range borders the Colorado River– on the west and also the southern section of the Colorado River Indian Reservation on the northwest located in the Lower Colorado River Valley...
  
  
• Eagletail Mountains
• Gila Bend Mountains
  Gila Bend Mountains
  The Gila Bend Mountains are a 35-mile long mountain range of the north-central Sonoran Desert southwest of Phoenix, Arizona and in southwest Maricopa County....
  
  
• Gila Mountains (Yuma County)
  Gila Mountains (Yuma County)
  The Gila Mountains is a mountain range in southwestern Arizona in the northwestern Sonoran Desert.The Gila Mountains of Yuma County are a northwest-southeast trending mountain system, about 26 miles long; the fault-blocked mountain range is attached on the south to the Tinajas Altas Mountains...
  
  
• Goldfield Mountains
• Granite Wash Mountains
  Granite Wash Mountains
  The Granite Wash Mountains are a short, arid, low elevation mountain range of western-central Arizona, in the southeast of La Paz County. The range borders a slightly larger range southeast, the Little Harquahala Mountains; both ranges form a section on the same water divide between two desert washes...
  
  
• Harcuvar Mountains
  Harcuvar Mountains
  The Harcuvar Mountains are a narrow mountain range in western-central Arizona, USA. The range lies just east of the north-south Colorado River, and south of the east-west, west-flowing Bill Williams River, from Alamo Lake....
  
  –NE. La Paz County -- (SW. Yavapai County)
• Harquahala Mountains
  Harquahala Mountains
  The Harquahala Mountains are the highest mountain range in southwestern Arizona, USA and are located southwest of the towns of Aguila and Wenden. The name originated from a local Native American people "Aha qua hala" which meant "water there is high up". The range is oriented from northeast to...
  
  –E. La Paz County -- (W. Maricopa County)
  • Little Harquahala Mountains
    Little Harquahala Mountains
    The Little Harquahala Mountains are a small, arid, low elevation mountain range of western-central Arizona, in the southeast of La Paz County....
    
    
• Hieroglyphic Mountains
  Hieroglyphic Mountains
  The Hieroglyphic Mountains are a mountain range located in central Arizona. The Hieroglyphics roughly straddle the border between Maricopa and Yavapai counties and form an effective physical barrier northwest of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area...
  
  –Maricopa County -- (some in S. Yavapai County)
• Kofa Mountains
  Kofa Mountains
  The Kofa Mountains is the central mountain range comprising the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, about 60 miles northeast of Yuma, Arizona in the southwestern part of the state...
  
  –N. Yuma County - (S. La Paz County)
• Laguna Mountains (Arizona)
  Laguna Mountains (Arizona)
  The Laguna Mountains are a small, approximately circular mountain range of extreme southwest Arizona at the northeast of Yuma and east of Winterhaven, California on the Colorado River...
  
  –Yuma County (see also: Laguna Mountains
  Laguna Mountains
  The Laguna Mountains are a section of the Peninsular Ranges in eastern San Diego County, California. The mountains run in a northwest/southeast alignment for approximately ....
  
  (Calif))
• Little Buckskin Mountains
• Little Harquahala Mountains
  Little Harquahala Mountains
  The Little Harquahala Mountains are a small, arid, low elevation mountain range of western-central Arizona, in the southeast of La Paz County....
  
  
  • Harquahala Mountains
    Harquahala Mountains
    The Harquahala Mountains are the highest mountain range in southwestern Arizona, USA and are located southwest of the towns of Aguila and Wenden. The name originated from a local Native American people "Aha qua hala" which meant "water there is high up". The range is oriented from northeast to...
    
    
• ( Little Horn Mountains–S. La Paz County -- (N. Yuma County) )
• Little Maria Mountains
  Little Maria Mountains
  The Little Maria Mountains are located in southeastern California in the United States. The range lies in a northwest-southeasterly direction east of the Palen Mountains and west of the Big Maria Mountains...
  
  
• Little Mule Mountains
  Little Mule Mountains
  The Little Mule Mountains are a mountain range in Imperial County, California.*Colorado Desert*Lower Colorado River Valley...
  
  
  • Mule Mountains (California)
    Mule Mountains (California)
    The Mule Mountains of California are located in the southeastern part of the state in the United States. The range lies in a northeast-southwesterly direction south of the McCoy Mountains and west of the Palo Verde Valley and Colorado River. The mountain range is approximately long and is located...
    
    
  • Big Maria Mountains
    Big Maria Mountains
    The Big Maria Mountains are located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of California, near the Colorado River and Arizona. The range lies between Blythe and Vidal, and west of U.S. Route 95 in California. The mountains are home to the Eagle Nest Mine and reach an elevation of 1,030 meters,...
    
    
• Maricopa Mountains
• ( Mazatzal Mountains
  Mazatzal Mountains
  The Mazatzal Mountains are a mountain range in south central Arizona, about 30–45 miles northeast of Phoenix and the Phoenix metropolitan area. The origin of the name remains obscure but one possibility is that it is from the Aztec language meaning "place of the deer"...
  
  –Southeast Yavapai County -- (and N. Maricopa, W. Gila County) )
• McCoy Mountains
  McCoy Mountains
  The McCoy Mountains are located in southeastern California in the United States.-Geography:The range lies in a northwest-southeasterly direction east of the Palen Mountains and south of the Little Maria Mountains...
  
  
• McDowell Mountains
  McDowell Mountains
  The McDowell Mountain Range is located about twenty miles north-east of Phoenix, Arizona, and may be seen from most places throughout the city. The range is composed of miocene deposits left nearly five million years ago. The McDowells share borders with the cities of Fountain Hills, Scottsdale,...
  
  
• Middle Mountains–S. La Paz County -- (N. Yuma County)
• Mohawk Mountains
  Mohawk Mountains
  The Mohawk Mountains is a mountain range in the northwest Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona. It abuts the western Gila River valley to the north, and is located in southern Yuma County, Arizona and is part of an eleven mountain range–three valley region...
  
  
• Muggins Mountains
  Muggins Mountains
  The Muggins Mountains is a mountain range in southwest Arizona east of Yuma, Arizona, northeast of the Gila Mountains , and east of the Laguna Mountains...
  
  
• Mule Mountains (California)
  Mule Mountains (California)
  The Mule Mountains of California are located in the southeastern part of the state in the United States. The range lies in a northeast-southwesterly direction south of the McCoy Mountains and west of the Palo Verde Valley and Colorado River. The mountain range is approximately long and is located...
  
  
  • Little Mule Mountains
    Little Mule Mountains
    The Little Mule Mountains are a mountain range in Imperial County, California.*Colorado Desert*Lower Colorado River Valley...
    
    
• New Water Mountains
  New Water Mountains
  The New Water Mountains is a mountain range in southwestern Arizona. The range is on the northern border of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge as well as the northern Kofa Mountains.It is a northwest-southeast trending range, about 20 miles long...
  
  –S. La Paz County -- (connected to Kofa Mountains
  Kofa Mountains
  The Kofa Mountains is the central mountain range comprising the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, about 60 miles northeast of Yuma, Arizona in the southwestern part of the state...
  
  , N. Yuma County)
• Nopah Range
  Nopah Range
  The Nopah Range is located in Inyo County, California, USA, near the eastern border with Nevada.-Geography:The mountain range lies east of the adjacent Resting Spring Range, the Owlshead Mountains and lower Death Valley, and are north of the Kingston Range. The Amargosa River is to the west...
  
  
• Painted Rock Mountains
• Palomas Mountains
• Plomosa Mountains
  Plomosa Mountains
  The Plomosa Mountains are a mountain range in La Paz County, Arizona, running generally south of Bouse, Arizona near the Arizona/California border. The maximum height of the range is 1791 feet ....
  
  
• Phoenix Mountains
  Phoenix Mountains
  The Phoenix Mountains are a mountain range located in central Phoenix, Arizona. With the exception of Mummy Mountain, they are part of the Phoenix Mountain Preserve...
  
  
• Riverside Mountains
  Riverside Mountains
  The Riverside Mountains are a mountain range in Riverside County, California. The town of Vidal, California is located in the West Riverside Mountains.-Geography:The Riverside Mountains are in the Colorado Desert, in the Lower Colorado River Valley region...
  
  
• Sand Tank Mountains
• Salt River Mountains
• Sierra Arida
• Sierra de la Lechuguilla
• Sierra Estrella
  Sierra Estrella
  The Sierra Estrella is a mountain range located southwest of Phoenix, Arizona. Much of the range falls within the Gila River Indian Reservation, but of BLM land is protected as the Sierra Estrella Wilderness.-Description:...
  
  
• Sierra Pinta
  Sierra Pinta
  The Sierra Pinta or Sierra Pintas are a narrow remote block faulted northwest-southeast trending mountain range, about long located in southwestern Arizona in the arid northwestern Sonoran Desert, just north of the Pinacate Reserve of northern Sonora, Mexico...
  
  
• Silver Bell Mountains
  Silver Bell Mountains
  The Silver Bell Mountains are an arid north-northwest x southeast trending small mountain range in north-central Pima County, Arizona. The range lies west of Marana, Arizona, located on Interstate-10, northwest of Tucson....
  
  
  • West Silver Bell Mountains
    West Silver Bell Mountains
    The West Silver Bell Mountains are a small 10 mile long mountain range of south-central Arizona, United States. The range lies in the north-central arid Sonoran Desert; the Madrean Sky Islands region of southeast Arizona, around Tucson is adjacent to the southeast.The range lies 25 mi west of...
    
    
• Tank Mountains
  Tank Mountains
  The Tank Mountains are a mountain range in the Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona; the range is part of the eastern border of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge....
  
  
• Tinajas Altas Mountains
• Trigo Mountains
  Trigo Mountains
  The Trigo Mountains is a north-south trending mountain range, bordering the Colorado River on the east in the Lower Colorado River Valley and lies north of the Colorado River as it turns east, north of Martinez Lake and the Imperial Reservoir...
  
  
• Tule Mountains
  Tule Mountains
  The Tule Mountains is a mountain landform in Yuma County, Arizona. There is a diverse flora and fauna population within the Tule Mountains; one of the notable trees found in this mountain range is the Elephant tree, Bursera microphylla.- References :...
  
  
• Turtle Mountains (California)
  Turtle Mountains (California)
  The Turtle Mountains, and Amat 'Achii'ar in the Mojave language, are located in San Bernardino County, California, in the southeastern part of the state.-Geography:The Turtle Mountains are southeast of Needles, California, west off of U.S...
  
  -(borders the Mojave Desert)
• Usery Mountains–Maricopa County -- (See: Usery Mountain Recreation Area.)
• Vulture Mountains
• Waterman Mountains
  Waterman Mountains
  The Waterman Mountains are a low mountainous landform in Pima County, United States. Numerous flora and fauna species are found in the Waterman Mountains, in the Pinyon-juniper woodland plant community. Notable among the tree species is the Elephant tree which species exhibits a contorted...
  
  
• West Silver Bell Mountains
  West Silver Bell Mountains
  The West Silver Bell Mountains are a small 10 mile long mountain range of south-central Arizona, United States. The range lies in the north-central arid Sonoran Desert; the Madrean Sky Islands region of southeast Arizona, around Tucson is adjacent to the southeast.The range lies 25 mi west of...
  
  
  • Silver Bell Mountains
    Silver Bell Mountains
    The Silver Bell Mountains are an arid north-northwest x southeast trending small mountain range in north-central Pima County, Arizona. The range lies west of Marana, Arizona, located on Interstate-10, northwest of Tucson....
    
    
• Whipple Mountains
  Whipple Mountains
  The Whipple Mountains, 'Avii Kur'utat in the Mojave language, are located in eastern San Bernardino County, California. They are directly west of the Colorado River, Parker Dam, and Lake Havasu; south of Needles, California; north of Parker, Arizona and Vidal, California; and northeast of Vidal...
  
  -(borders the Mojave Desert)
• White Tank Mountains
  White Tank Mountains
  The White Tank Mountains is a mountain range located in central Arizona. The mountains are on the western periphery of the Phoenix metropolitan area, primarily flanked by the suburban cities of Buckeye to the south and west, and Surprise to the north and east...
  
  

Colorado Desert

Colorado Desert

California's Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert, which extends across southwest North America. The Colorado Desert region encompasses approximately , reaching from the Mexican border in the south to the higher-elevation Mojave Desert in the north and from the Colorado River in...

, southeast Lower California

• Big Maria Mountains
  Big Maria Mountains
  The Big Maria Mountains are located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of California, near the Colorado River and Arizona. The range lies between Blythe and Vidal, and west of U.S. Route 95 in California. The mountains are home to the Eagle Nest Mine and reach an elevation of 1,030 meters,...
  
  
• Cargo Muchacho Mountains
  Cargo Muchacho Mountains
  The Cargo Muchacho Mountains are located in the southeast Colorado Desert in the Lower Colorado River Valley, in Imperial County, California in the United States.-Geography:...
  
  
• Chocolate Mountains
  Chocolate Mountains
  The Chocolate Mountains of California are located in Imperial County and Riverside County in the Colorado Desert in Southern California. The mountains stretch more than 60 miles in a northwest to southeast direction, and are located east of the Salton Sea and south and west of the Chuckwalla...
  
  
• Chuckwalla Mountains
  Chuckwalla Mountains
  The Chuckwalla Mountains are a mountain range in the transition zone between the Colorado Desert—Sonoran Desert and the Mojave Desert, climatically and vegetationally, in Riverside County of southern California.-Geography:...
  
  
• Little Maria Mountains
  Little Maria Mountains
  The Little Maria Mountains are located in southeastern California in the United States. The range lies in a northwest-southeasterly direction east of the Palen Mountains and west of the Big Maria Mountains...
  
  
• Little Mule Mountains
  Little Mule Mountains
  The Little Mule Mountains are a mountain range in Imperial County, California.*Colorado Desert*Lower Colorado River Valley...
  
  
• McCoy Mountains
  McCoy Mountains
  The McCoy Mountains are located in southeastern California in the United States.-Geography:The range lies in a northwest-southeasterly direction east of the Palen Mountains and south of the Little Maria Mountains...
  
  
• Mule Mountains (California)
  Mule Mountains (California)
  The Mule Mountains of California are located in the southeastern part of the state in the United States. The range lies in a northeast-southwesterly direction south of the McCoy Mountains and west of the Palo Verde Valley and Colorado River. The mountain range is approximately long and is located...
  
  
• Nopah Range
  Nopah Range
  The Nopah Range is located in Inyo County, California, USA, near the eastern border with Nevada.-Geography:The mountain range lies east of the adjacent Resting Spring Range, the Owlshead Mountains and lower Death Valley, and are north of the Kingston Range. The Amargosa River is to the west...
  
  
• Riverside Mountains
  Riverside Mountains
  The Riverside Mountains are a mountain range in Riverside County, California. The town of Vidal, California is located in the West Riverside Mountains.-Geography:The Riverside Mountains are in the Colorado Desert, in the Lower Colorado River Valley region...
  
  
• Turtle Mountains (California)
  Turtle Mountains (California)
  The Turtle Mountains, and Amat 'Achii'ar in the Mojave language, are located in San Bernardino County, California, in the southeastern part of the state.-Geography:The Turtle Mountains are southeast of Needles, California, west off of U.S...
  
  -(borders the Mojave Desert)
• Whipple Mountains
  Whipple Mountains
  The Whipple Mountains, 'Avii Kur'utat in the Mojave language, are located in eastern San Bernardino County, California. They are directly west of the Colorado River, Parker Dam, and Lake Havasu; south of Needles, California; north of Parker, Arizona and Vidal, California; and northeast of Vidal...
  
  -(borders the Mojave Desert)

La Paz County, Arizona

The mostly east-west flowing Bill Williams River

Bill Williams River

The Bill Williams River is a river in western-central Arizona in Mohave County; the river proper is the northern border of La Paz County which it drains in the north, as well as areas of far western Yavapai County...

 forms the northern border of La Paz County, Arizona

La Paz County, Arizona

La Paz County is a county in the western part of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2010 census its population was 20,489. The county seat is Parker...

 with Mohave County

Mohave County, Arizona

Mohave County is located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2010 census, its population was 200,186, an increase of 45,154 people since the 2000 census count of 155,032. The county seat is Kingman...

 to the north. This is an approximate delimiting line between the Mojave Desert

Mojave Desert

The Mojave Desert occupies a significant portion of southeastern California and smaller parts of central California, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona, in the United States...

 north and northwest, and to the Sonoran Desert

Sonoran Desert

The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which straddles part of the United States-Mexico border and covers large parts of the U.S. states of Arizona and California and the northwest Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur. It is one of the largest and hottest...

 to the south, east, and southeast. The Colorado Desert

Colorado Desert

California's Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert, which extends across southwest North America. The Colorado Desert region encompasses approximately , reaching from the Mexican border in the south to the higher-elevation Mojave Desert in the north and from the Colorado River in...

-(subsection of the Sonoran) lies across the Colorado River to the west, but intergrades into the higher elevation Mojave Desert northwestwards.

• Buckskin Mountains
  Buckskin Mountains
  The Buckskin Mountains are a mountain range in western-central Arizona, USA. The range lies just east of the north-south Colorado River, and borders south of the east-west, west-flowing Bill Williams River....
  
  
• Chocolate Mountains (Arizona)
  Chocolate Mountains (Arizona)
  The Chocolate Mountains of Arizona are located in the southwestern part of the state east of the Trigo Mountains and southwest of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. The mountains are located about 30 miles east of the Chocolate Mountains of California, but the two ranges are not connected. The...
  
  
• Dome Rock Mountains
  Dome Rock Mountains
  The Dome Rock Mountains are a regionally short mountain range in southwestern Arizona in southern La Paz County. The range borders the Colorado River– on the west and also the southern section of the Colorado River Indian Reservation on the northwest located in the Lower Colorado River Valley...
  
  
• Granite Wash Mountains
  Granite Wash Mountains
  The Granite Wash Mountains are a short, arid, low elevation mountain range of western-central Arizona, in the southeast of La Paz County. The range borders a slightly larger range southeast, the Little Harquahala Mountains; both ranges form a section on the same water divide between two desert washes...
  
  
• Harcuvar Mountains
  Harcuvar Mountains
  The Harcuvar Mountains are a narrow mountain range in western-central Arizona, USA. The range lies just east of the north-south Colorado River, and south of the east-west, west-flowing Bill Williams River, from Alamo Lake....
  
  –NE. La Paz County -- (SW. Yavapai County)
• Harquahala Mountains
  Harquahala Mountains
  The Harquahala Mountains are the highest mountain range in southwestern Arizona, USA and are located southwest of the towns of Aguila and Wenden. The name originated from a local Native American people "Aha qua hala" which meant "water there is high up". The range is oriented from northeast to...
  
  –E. La Paz County -- (W. Maricopa County)
• (Kofa Mountains
  Kofa Mountains
  The Kofa Mountains is the central mountain range comprising the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, about 60 miles northeast of Yuma, Arizona in the southwestern part of the state...
  
  –N. Yuma County - (S. La Paz County) )
• Little Buckskin Mountains
• Little Harquahala Mountains
  Little Harquahala Mountains
  The Little Harquahala Mountains are a small, arid, low elevation mountain range of western-central Arizona, in the southeast of La Paz County....
  
  
• ( Little Horn Mountains–S. La Paz County -- (N. Yuma County) )
• Middle Mountains–S. La Paz County -- (N. Yuma County)
• New Water Mountains
  New Water Mountains
  The New Water Mountains is a mountain range in southwestern Arizona. The range is on the northern border of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge as well as the northern Kofa Mountains.It is a northwest-southeast trending range, about 20 miles long...
  
  
• Plomosa Mountains
  Plomosa Mountains
  The Plomosa Mountains are a mountain range in La Paz County, Arizona, running generally south of Bouse, Arizona near the Arizona/California border. The maximum height of the range is 1791 feet ....
  
  
• Trigo Mountains
  Trigo Mountains
  The Trigo Mountains is a north-south trending mountain range, bordering the Colorado River on the east in the Lower Colorado River Valley and lies north of the Colorado River as it turns east, north of Martinez Lake and the Imperial Reservoir...
  
  

Maricopa County, Arizona

• Belmont Mountains
  Belmont Mountains
  The Belmont Mountains are a 25 mi long, arid, low elevation mountain range about 50 mi west of Phoenix, Arizona in the northern Sonoran Desert, north of the Gila River...
  
  
• Big Horn Mountains (Arizona)
• Crater Range
• Eagletail Mountains
• Gila Bend Mountains
  Gila Bend Mountains
  The Gila Bend Mountains are a 35-mile long mountain range of the north-central Sonoran Desert southwest of Phoenix, Arizona and in southwest Maricopa County....
  
  
• Goldfield Mountains
• ( Harquahala Mountains
  Harquahala Mountains
  The Harquahala Mountains are the highest mountain range in southwestern Arizona, USA and are located southwest of the towns of Aguila and Wenden. The name originated from a local Native American people "Aha qua hala" which meant "water there is high up". The range is oriented from northeast to...
  
  –E. La Paz County -- (W. Maricopa County) )
• Hieroglyphic Mountains
  Hieroglyphic Mountains
  The Hieroglyphic Mountains are a mountain range located in central Arizona. The Hieroglyphics roughly straddle the border between Maricopa and Yavapai counties and form an effective physical barrier northwest of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area...
  
  –Maricopa County -- (some in S. Yavapai County)
• Maricopa Mountains
• ( Mazatzal Mountains
  Mazatzal Mountains
  The Mazatzal Mountains are a mountain range in south central Arizona, about 30–45 miles northeast of Phoenix and the Phoenix metropolitan area. The origin of the name remains obscure but one possibility is that it is from the Aztec language meaning "place of the deer"...
  
  –Southeast Yavapai County -- (and N. Maricopa, W. Gila County) )
• McDowell Mountains
  McDowell Mountains
  The McDowell Mountain Range is located about twenty miles north-east of Phoenix, Arizona, and may be seen from most places throughout the city. The range is composed of miocene deposits left nearly five million years ago. The McDowells share borders with the cities of Fountain Hills, Scottsdale,...
  
  
• Painted Rock Mountains
• Phoenix Mountains
  Phoenix Mountains
  The Phoenix Mountains are a mountain range located in central Phoenix, Arizona. With the exception of Mummy Mountain, they are part of the Phoenix Mountain Preserve...
  
  
• Sand Tank Mountains
• Sierra Estrella
  Sierra Estrella
  The Sierra Estrella is a mountain range located southwest of Phoenix, Arizona. Much of the range falls within the Gila River Indian Reservation, but of BLM land is protected as the Sierra Estrella Wilderness.-Description:...
  
  
• Salt River Mountains
• Usery Mountains–Maricopa County -- (See: Usery Mountain Recreation Area.)
• Vulture Mountains
• White Tank Mountains
  White Tank Mountains
  The White Tank Mountains is a mountain range located in central Arizona. The mountains are on the western periphery of the Phoenix metropolitan area, primarily flanked by the suburban cities of Buckeye to the south and west, and Surprise to the north and east...
  
  

Pima County, Arizona

• Agua Dulce Mountains
  Agua Dulce Mountains
  The Agua Dulce Mountains are a mountain range in the north-central Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona. The range is located in the extreme southwestern portion of Pima County, Arizona, immediately north of the international boundary with Mexico and about 30 miles southwest of Ajo, Arizona...
  
  
• Ajo Range–Pima County
  • Little Ajo Mountains
    Little Ajo Mountains
    The Little Ajo Mountains is a mountain range in southern Arizona, in extreme western Pima County, Arizona. The city of Ajo-, sits on the northeast of this small mountain range....
    
    
• Alvarez Mountains
• Artesa Mountains
• Baboquivari Mountains (Arizona)–Pima County; See: Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
  Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
  The Baboquivari Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located in the Baboquivari Mountain Range southwest of Tucson, Arizona. It is administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The United States Congress designated the Baboquivari Peak Wilderness in 1990. It...
  
  
• Batamote Mountains
• Bates Mountains
• Brownell Mountains
• Castle Mountains (Arizona)
• Cerro Colorado Mountains
  Cerro Colorado Mountains
  The Cerro Colorado Mountains are a low mountain range in Pima County, Arizona, USA. The highest point of the range is at the Colorado Benchmark , at ....
  
  ( 4207 )
  (on eastern border of Sonoran Desert region)
• Cimarron Mountains
• Coyote Mountains (Arizona)
• Crooked Mountains
• Diablo Mountains (Arizona)
• Empire Mountains
• Gakolik Mountains
• Granite Mountains (Arizona)
  Granite Mountains (Arizona)
  The Granite Mountains is a mountain range in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona. It is located in extreme western Pima County, Arizona, bordering southeast Yuma County....
  
  –Pima County–see also: Granite Mountain (Arizona)
  Granite Mountain (Arizona)
  Granite Mountain is a mountain located in Yavapai County, Arizona that covers roughly . It was once known as Mount Gurley for the first governor of the Arizona Territory, John A. Gurley. Its southwest face has a sheer granite cliff approximately 500 feet high that is one of the best locations for...
  
  -(Yavapai County)
  a separate "Granite Mountain" is in s. La Paz County
• Growler Mountains
  Growler Mountains
  The Growler Mountains is a 23-mile, long north-south trending mountain range of far western Pima County, Arizona that lies west of Ajo, Arizona...
  
  
• John the Baptist Mountains
  John the Baptist Mountains
  The John the Baptist Mountains are a small mountain range in western Pima County, Arizona, approximately 8.5 miles southwest of the town of Ajo, Arizona. The range is approximately three miles long and about one mile wide at its widest point. The highpoint of the range is 2,161 feet above sea level...
  
  
• La Lesna Mountains
• Las Guijas Mountains
• Little Ajo Mountains
  Little Ajo Mountains
  The Little Ajo Mountains is a mountain range in southern Arizona, in extreme western Pima County, Arizona. The city of Ajo-, sits on the northeast of this small mountain range....
  
  
  • Ajo Range
• Mesquite Mountains
  Mesquite Mountains
  The Mesquite Mountains are a mountain range in eastern San Bernardino County, California, near the border with Nevada. They are north of Interstate 15 in California and southeast of Death Valley.-North Mesquite Mountains Wilderness Area:...
  
  
• North Comobabi Mountains
• Pozo Redondo Mountains
• Puerto Blanco Mountains
• Quijotoa Mountains
• Quinlan Mountains( 5014 )
  (on eastern border of Sonoran Desert region-(northern extension of Baboquivari Mountains))
• Roskruge Mountains
• San Luis Mountains
  San Luis Mountains
  The San Luis Mountains are a small, lower elevation mountain range of central-southern Pima County Arizona adjacent the U.S.-Mexico border, northeast of Sasabe, Arizona–Sasabe, Sonora....
  
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  (on eastern border of Sonoran Desert region)
• Santa Rosa Mountains (Arizona)
• Sauceda Mountains
• Sheridan Mountains
• Sierra Blanca Mountains
• Sierra de la Nariz
• Sierra de Santa Rosa
• Sierrita Mountains
• Sikort Chuapo Mountains
• Silver Bell Mountains
  Silver Bell Mountains
  The Silver Bell Mountains are an arid north-northwest x southeast trending small mountain range in north-central Pima County, Arizona. The range lies west of Marana, Arizona, located on Interstate-10, northwest of Tucson....
  
  
  • West Silver Bell Mountains
    West Silver Bell Mountains
    The West Silver Bell Mountains are a small 10 mile long mountain range of south-central Arizona, United States. The range lies in the north-central arid Sonoran Desert; the Madrean Sky Islands region of southeast Arizona, around Tucson is adjacent to the southeast.The range lies 25 mi west of...
    
    
• Sonoyta Mountains
• South Comobabi Mountains
• Tortolita Mountains
  Tortolita Mountains
  The Tortolita Mountains are a minor mountain range located northwest of Tucson, Arizona, USA. With a peak elevation of 4,652 feet , the Tortolita Mountains are situated at the northern boundaries of Oro Valley and Marana, two suburbs of Tucson...
  
  ( 4652 )
  (both in Madrean sky island region, and also on border of Sonoran Desert ranges-(northeast Madrean))
• Tucson Mountains
  Tucson Mountains
  The Tucson Mountains are a minor mountain range west of Tucson, Arizona. The Tucson Mountains, including Wasson Peak, are one of four notable mountain ranges surrounding the Tucson valley...
  
  
• Waterman Mountains
  Waterman Mountains
  The Waterman Mountains are a low mountainous landform in Pima County, United States. Numerous flora and fauna species are found in the Waterman Mountains, in the Pinyon-juniper woodland plant community. Notable among the tree species is the Elephant tree which species exhibits a contorted...
  
  
• West Silver Bell Mountains
  West Silver Bell Mountains
  The West Silver Bell Mountains are a small 10 mile long mountain range of south-central Arizona, United States. The range lies in the north-central arid Sonoran Desert; the Madrean Sky Islands region of southeast Arizona, around Tucson is adjacent to the southeast.The range lies 25 mi west of...
  
  
  • Silver Bell Mountains
    Silver Bell Mountains
    The Silver Bell Mountains are an arid north-northwest x southeast trending small mountain range in north-central Pima County, Arizona. The range lies west of Marana, Arizona, located on Interstate-10, northwest of Tucson....
    
    

On Eastern border of Sonoran Desert-(Madrean Sky Island)

• Baboquivari Mountains (Arizona)( 7730 )Pima County; See: Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
  Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
  The Baboquivari Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located in the Baboquivari Mountain Range southwest of Tucson, Arizona. It is administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The United States Congress designated the Baboquivari Peak Wilderness in 1990. It...
  
  
  (on eastern border of Sonoran Desert region-(separated from the major groups of mountains by the Altar Valley
  Altar Valley
  The Altar Valley is a 45-mile long north-south valley, trending slightly northeast from Sasabe, Arizona on the Mexico border to the Avra Valley, Arizona west of the Tucson Mountains...
  
  )

Pinal County, Arizona

• Mineral Mountains, Arizona
  Mineral Mountains, Arizona
  The Mineral Mountains are a group of rugged, volcanic hills and mountains southwest of Superior and northeast of Florence, Pinal County, Arizona.The White Canyon Wilderness Area is in the eastern portion of this range....
  
  
• Sacaton Mountains (Arizona)
  Sacaton Mountains (Arizona)
  The Sacaton Mountains are a range of granitic inselbergs in Pinal County, Arizona, located south of Phoenix near Casa Grande, Arizona.The highest peak is Sacaton Peak at an elevation of 2755 ft. Other peaks include Agency Peak, Hayden Peak, Thin Mountain, Fivemile Peak, and Signal...
  
  
• Tortolita Mountains
  Tortolita Mountains
  The Tortolita Mountains are a minor mountain range located northwest of Tucson, Arizona, USA. With a peak elevation of 4,652 feet , the Tortolita Mountains are situated at the northern boundaries of Oro Valley and Marana, two suburbs of Tucson...
  
  ( 4652 )
• West Silver Bell Mountains
  West Silver Bell Mountains
  The West Silver Bell Mountains are a small 10 mile long mountain range of south-central Arizona, United States. The range lies in the north-central arid Sonoran Desert; the Madrean Sky Islands region of southeast Arizona, around Tucson is adjacent to the southeast.The range lies 25 mi west of...
  
  

Yavapai County, Arizona

• Bradshaw Mountains
  Bradshaw Mountains
  The Bradshaw Mountains are a mountain range in the Sonoran Desert of central Arizona, USA, named for brothers Isaac and William Bradshaw after their death, having been formerly known in English as the Silver Mountain Range.-History:...
  
  
• Harcuvar Mountains
  Harcuvar Mountains
  The Harcuvar Mountains are a narrow mountain range in western-central Arizona, USA. The range lies just east of the north-south Colorado River, and south of the east-west, west-flowing Bill Williams River, from Alamo Lake....
  
  
• Hieroglyphic Mountains
  Hieroglyphic Mountains
  The Hieroglyphic Mountains are a mountain range located in central Arizona. The Hieroglyphics roughly straddle the border between Maricopa and Yavapai counties and form an effective physical barrier northwest of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area...
  
  –Maricopa County -- (some in S. Yavapai County)

Yuma County, Arizona

• Agua Caliente Mountains
• Aguila Mountains
• Bryan Mountains
  Bryan Mountains
  The Bryan Mountains are a small mountain range in the northwestern Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona. The range is located in southeastern Yuma County, about 75 mi southeast of Yuma and about 35 mi west of Ajo. The range is approximately ten miles long and about three miles wide at...
  
  
• Butler Mountains
• Cabeza Prieta Mountains
  Cabeza Prieta Mountains
  The Cabeza Prieta Mountains are a mountain range in the northwestern Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona. It is located in southern Yuma County, Arizona....
  
  
• Castle Dome Mountains
  Castle Dome Mountains
  The Castle Dome Mountains are a mountain range in Yuma County, Arizona, within the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. Castle Dome peak, the high point of the range, is a prominent and distinctive landmark. The peak is high, and is located at . Castle Dome was named by American soldiers at old Fort...
  
  
• Copper Mountains
  Copper Mountains
  The Copper Mountains is a minor north-south trending mountain range, only 8 miles long in southwestern Arizona in the southwestern Sonoran Desert....
  
  
• Gila Mountains (Yuma County)
  Gila Mountains (Yuma County)
  The Gila Mountains is a mountain range in southwestern Arizona in the northwestern Sonoran Desert.The Gila Mountains of Yuma County are a northwest-southeast trending mountain system, about 26 miles long; the fault-blocked mountain range is attached on the south to the Tinajas Altas Mountains...
  
  
• Kofa Mountains
  Kofa Mountains
  The Kofa Mountains is the central mountain range comprising the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, about 60 miles northeast of Yuma, Arizona in the southwestern part of the state...
  
  –N. Yuma County - (S. La Paz County)
• Laguna Mountains (Arizona)
  Laguna Mountains (Arizona)
  The Laguna Mountains are a small, approximately circular mountain range of extreme southwest Arizona at the northeast of Yuma and east of Winterhaven, California on the Colorado River...
  
  –Yuma County (see also: Laguna Mountains
  Laguna Mountains
  The Laguna Mountains are a section of the Peninsular Ranges in eastern San Diego County, California. The mountains run in a northwest/southeast alignment for approximately ....
  
  (Calif))
• ( Little Horn Mountains–S. La Paz County -- (N. Yuma County) )
• Middle Mountains–S. La Paz County -- (N. Yuma County)
• Mohawk Mountains
  Mohawk Mountains
  The Mohawk Mountains is a mountain range in the northwest Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona. It abuts the western Gila River valley to the north, and is located in southern Yuma County, Arizona and is part of an eleven mountain range–three valley region...
  
  
• Muggins Mountains
  Muggins Mountains
  The Muggins Mountains is a mountain range in southwest Arizona east of Yuma, Arizona, northeast of the Gila Mountains , and east of the Laguna Mountains...
  
  
• ( New Water Mountains
  New Water Mountains
  The New Water Mountains is a mountain range in southwestern Arizona. The range is on the northern border of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge as well as the northern Kofa Mountains.It is a northwest-southeast trending range, about 20 miles long...
  
  –S. La Paz County -- (connected to Kofa Mountains
  Kofa Mountains
  The Kofa Mountains is the central mountain range comprising the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, about 60 miles northeast of Yuma, Arizona in the southwestern part of the state...
  
  , N. Yuma County) )
• Palomas Mountains
• Sierra Arida
• Sierra de la Lechuguilla
• Sierra Pinta
  Sierra Pinta
  The Sierra Pinta or Sierra Pintas are a narrow remote block faulted northwest-southeast trending mountain range, about long located in southwestern Arizona in the arid northwestern Sonoran Desert, just north of the Pinacate Reserve of northern Sonora, Mexico...
  
  
• Tank Mountains
  Tank Mountains
  The Tank Mountains are a mountain range in the Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona; the range is part of the eastern border of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge....
  
  
• Tinajas Altas Mountains
• Tule Mountains
  Tule Mountains
  The Tule Mountains is a mountain landform in Yuma County, Arizona. There is a diverse flora and fauna population within the Tule Mountains; one of the notable trees found in this mountain range is the Elephant tree, Bursera microphylla.- References :...
  
  

See also

• List of Madrean Sky Island mountain ranges - Sonoran - Chihuahuan Deserts
• List of mountain ranges of Arizona