# List of Sierra Nevada topics

This list is about the Sierra Nevada of California, United States.

## Principal mountains

List of mountains over 14,000 ft (4250 m) with 300 ft (90 m) of prominence:
* Mount Whitney 14,505 ft (4421 m)
* Mount Williamson 14,403 ft (4390 m)
* North Palisade 14,242 ft (4341 m)
* Mount Sill 14,153 ft (4314 m)
* Mount Russell 14,094 ft (4296 m)
* Split Mountain 14,064 ft (4286 m)
* Mount Langley 14,025 ft (4280 m)
* Mount Tyndall 14,019 ft (4273 m)
* Middle Palisade 14,012 ft (4271 m)
* Mount Muir 14,012 ft (4271 m)
Other notable peaks:
* Lost Corner Mountain
* Mount Baxter
* Black Kaweah
* Castle Peak
* Cathedral Peak
* Johnson Peak, the highest mountain in Tuolumne Meadows
* El Capitan
* Mount Conness
* Mount Dana
* Mount Darwin
* Mount Davis
* Fresno Dome
* Mount Gibbs
* Half Dome
* Mount Hopkins
* Mount Humphreys
* Mount Huntington
* Lembert Dome
* Liberty Cap
* Mount Lyell
* Maggies Peaks
* Mammoth Mountain
* Matterhorn Peak
* The Minarets
* Mount Morgan
* Mount Morrison
* Pyramid Peak
* Red Kaweah
* Red Slate Mountain
* Mount Ritter
* Shuteye Peak
* Thunderbolt Peak
* Mount Tom

### Subranges

* Carson Range
* Cathedral Range
* Clark Range
* Crystal Range
* Great Western Divide
* Kaweah Peaks Ridge
* Palisades
* Ritter Range
* Sherwin Range

## Counties in the Sierra

* Alpine County, California
* Amador County, California
* Butte County, California
* Calaveras County, California
* El Dorado County, California
* Fresno County, California
* Inyo County, California
* Kern County, California
* Madera County, California
* Mariposa County, California
* Mono County, California
* Nevada County, California
* Placer County, California
* Plumas County, California
* Sierra County, California
* Tulare County, California
* Tuolumne County, California
* Yuba County, California
The Carson Range (a spur of the Sierra) extends into Nevada:
* Douglas County, Nevada
* Carson City, Nevada
* Washoe County, Nevada

## Principal rivers

* American River
* Cosumnes River
* Feather River
* Kern River
* Kings River
* Merced River
* Mokelumne River
* Sacramento River
* San Joaquin River
* Stanislaus River
* Truckee River
* Tuolumne River
* Yuba River

## Prominent Lakes

* Lake Tahoe
* Bass Lake
* Beardsley Lake
* Cherry Lake
* Mono Lake
* New Melones Lake
* Pinecrest Lake
* Tioga Lake
* Tulloch Lake
* Twain Harte Lake

## Other natural features

* Devil's Postpile
* Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne River
* Hetch Hetchy Valley
* Kings Canyon
* Long Valley Caldera
* Owens Valley
* San Joaquin Valley
* Sacramento Valley
* Tuolumne Meadows
* Yosemite Valley
* List of waterfalls in Yosemite National Park

## National parks and monuments

North to south:
* Yosemite National Park
* Kings Canyon National Park
* Sequoia National Park
* Giant Sequoia National Monument
Eastern side of the Sierra:
* Devil's Postpile National Monument

## National forests

* Eldorado National Forest
* Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
* Inyo National Forest
* Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit
* Plumas National Forest
* Sequoia National Forest
* Sierra National Forest
* Stanislaus National Forest
* Tahoe National Forest

## Wilderness areas

A total of over 3,726,000 acres (15,080 km$^2$) in 26 separate areas
* Ansel Adams
* Bright Star
* Bucks Lake
* Carson-Iceberg
* Chimney Peak
* Desolation
* Dinkey Lakes
* Domeland
* Emigrant
* Golden Trout
* Granite Chief
* Hoover
* Jennie Lakes
* John Krebs
* John Muir
* Kaiser
* Kiavah
* Mokelumne
* Monarch
* Mount Rose
* Owens Peak
* Owens River Headwaters
* Sacatar Trail
* Sequoia-Kings Canyon
* South Sierra
* Yosemite

## State Parks
### California

* Auburn State Recreation Area
* Bodie State Historic Park
* Burton Creek State Park
* Calaveras Big Trees State Park
* California State Mining and Mineral Museum Park Property
* Columbia State Historic Park
* D. L. Bliss State Park
* Donner Memorial State Park
* Emerald Bay State Park
* Empire Mine State Historic Park
* Folsom Lake State Recreation Area
* Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park
* Grover Hot Springs State Park
* Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park
* Kings Beach State Recreation Area
* Lake Valley State Recreation Area
* Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park
* Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
* Millerton Lake State Recreation Area
* Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve
* Prairie City State Vehicular Recreation Area
* Railtown 1897 State Historic Park
* South Yuba River State Park
* Stone Lake Park Property
* Sugar Pine Point Light
* Tahoe State Recreation Area
* Ward Creek Park Property
* Washoe Meadows State Park
* Wassama Round House State Historic Park

### Nevada

* Dayton State Park
* Lake Tahoe-Nevada State Park
* Mormon Station State Historic Park
* Washoe Lake State Park

## Trails and routes

* John Muir Trail
* Pacific Crest Trail
* Four Mile Trail
* Hetch Hetchy to Lake Vernon Trail
* High Sierra Trail
* Independence Trail
* Lower Sagehen Creek Hiking Trail
* Mist Trail
* Mount Whitney Trail
* Sierra High Route
* Silver Knapsack Trail
* Tahoe Rim Trail
* Tahoe–Yosemite Trail
* Theodore Solomons Trail
* Trans-Sierra Highway

## Giant sequoia

* Converse Basin Grove
* Boole (tree)
* General Sherman (tree)
* General Grant (tree)
* General Noble (tree)
* Giant Forest
* President (tree)
* Lincoln (tree)
* Nelder Grove
* Mariposa Grove
* Mark Twain (tree)
* Stagg (tree)
* Redwood Mountain Grove

## Mountain passes

* Carson Pass
* Donner Pass
* Ebbetts Pass
* Forester Pass
* Fredonyer Pass
* Glen Pass
* Morgan Summit
* Muir Pass
* Pacific Grade Summit
* Sherman Pass
* Sonora Pass
* Tehachapi Pass
* Tioga Pass
* Walker Pass

## Fires

* Cedar Fire (2003)
* Rim Fire (2013)
* Thomas Fire (2017)
* Mendocino Complex (2018)
* August Complex fire (2020)
* North Complex Fire (2020)
* LNU Lightning Complex fires (2020)
* SCU Lightning Complex fires (2020)
* SQF Complex (2020)
* Creek Fire (2020)
* Caldor Fire (2021)
* Dixie Fire (2021)
* Oak Fire (2022)
* Washburn Fire (2022)

## People related to the Sierra Nevada

* Ansel Adams
* Lafayette Bunnell
* Kit Carson
* Galen Clark
* Norman Clyde
* C.C. Curtis
* Francis P. Farquhar
* James Mason Hutchings
* Joseph LeConte
* Joseph Nisbet LeConte
* John Muir
* Jim Savage
* Carl Sharsmith
* Theodore Solomons
* Walter A. Starr, Jr.
* Chief Tenaya
* Snowshoe Thompson
* Josiah Whitney

## Relevant list articles

* List of first ascents in the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
* List of Sierra Nevada road passes
* List of Yosemite destinations