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Currant Mountain is the highest peak in Nevada’s White Pine Range, rising 11,518 feet on a narrow limestone ridge in the Currant Mountain Wilderness of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. About 37 miles southwest of Ely near the Nye County border, it overlooks Railroad Valley and the Duckwater Shoshone tribal lands to the west and the upper White River Valley to the east. Its summit forms a line of three spires rather than a single rounded top, with the southern spire highest. Ranked among Nevada’s highest and most topographically prominent mountains, it dominates the surrounding basin-and-range landscape and remains a remote wilderness peak valued for its dramatic form.
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Preston, Nevada · United States
