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Silver Lake lies just outside the southwest boundary.
The bajada is interspersed with washes. Low rolling hills rise in the east toward the Turquoise Mountains, a gentle range with rounded peaks and smooth-sided ridges. Elevations range from about 300 feet near Silver Lake to a central Wilderness summit of 3,122 feet. The area contains plains, hills and alluvial fans typical of the California Desert. Creosote bush, desert holly and scale scrub plant communities dominate the vegetation throughout the area, and desert tortoises and Mojave fringe-toed lizards live here in seclusion.