Buckskin Mountains (Arizona-Utah)
The Buckskin Mountains on the Arizona-Utah border, is about a 15-mile (24 km) long mountain range divided almost equally in the counties of Coconino County, Arizona, and Kane County, Utah.
The range lies at the north end of the Kaibab Plateau, of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon; the Kanab and Paria Plateaus of Arizona, lie southwest, and southeast.
The Buckskin Mountains border the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument of Arizona, southeast. The north portion of the range in Utah is located in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
The northeast range terminus is Buckskin Gulch. To the range's east, across the narrow Coyote Valley of the north-flowing Coyote Wash, lies the Coyote Buttes of Arizona.
Description
The range trends approximately north-northeast, and descends steeply on its southeast flank to Coyote Wash. The range highpoint is Buckskin Mountain located just south of the state border in Arizona at 6,668 feet (2,032 m).
Access
The northeast, east, and south of the Buckskin Mountains can be accessed from U.S. Route 89A in Arizona from House Rock, Arizona, Road 1065, the House Rock Valley Road; the road is almost due-north trending, and in Utah, the road becomes The Cockscomb Road, connecting to U.S. 89, 17-mi west of Big Water.
Buckskin Mountains (Arizona)
The Buckskin Mountains, of Arizona, are a mountain range in west-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.
The range is part of a three-range sequence of mildly arc-shaped ranges, and two intermountain valleys in the Maria fold and thrust belt, a region in western Arizona and southeast Southern California, with the Colorado River flowing south through the western part of the belt. The fold-and-thrust-belt region contains numerous plains, valleys, and mountain ranges, about 30 landforms in all.
The Buckskin Mountains also extend west into a section abutting the Colorado River. Buckskin Mountain State Park borders the south of the Bill Williams River.
Buckskin Mountains: west, central, and southeast
The southeast section of the Buckskin Mountains are part of a three-mountain range thrust-faulted system, with the Harcuvar and Harquahala Mountains. The highest peak in the section is Battleship Peak, 2,569 feet (783 m), at the southwest end, and directly northeast of Bouse in the Ranegras Plain, and the Bouse Wash Drainage.
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