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Cedar Ridge Pass

Elko County, Nevada

Elevation: 6500 feet

On September 2, 2001,  my boy and I took the Huntington Valley road from Twin Bridges to Jiggs.  At the junction of Smith and Huntington Creeks in Huntington Valley we turned west on a dirt road and crossed over Cedar Ridge to Indian Well.  Once, this was a beautiful pass.  Unfortunately, a forest fire needlessly consumed much of this area in 1998.  From here we went to Indian Well.  Wonderful name, sad refrain.  Then south up the Crane Springs Canyon road. Past the ant colonies of Crane Springs Canyon.  Then we crossed back over the pass at the south end of Cedar Ridge.  That's what this page is about.  Why include it here.  It's pretty. 

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USGS Topographic Map of Cedar Ridge

 

USGS Aerial Photograph of Cedar Ridge (1994)

 

 

In Crane Springs Canyon looking at west flank of Cedar Ridge.  Dead trees in the foreground are remnants of a forest fire in this area in 1998.
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View out the windshield, kind of gives you the feeling of being there.  Traveling up the west side of Cedar Ridge.
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Sign at pass
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Looking north along ridgeline of Cedar Ridge.
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Close-up of 'berries' of Utah Juniper
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Looking northeast across Huntington Valley toward Ruby Mountains.
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Looking east across Huntington Valley toward Ruby Mountains.
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Looking southeast across Huntington Valley toward Ruby Mountains.
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Road down Cedar Ridge to Huntington Valley (Mound Valley area) - wonder who made this road?
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In Huntington Valley looking west toward Cedar Ridge.
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Links

 

Cedar Ridge Wilderness Study Area (PDF)

Pinyon Pine and Utah Juniper

Karpp Soil Series, Type Locality Cedar Ridge

 The present vegetation is a forest canopy of Utah juniper with an understory of Wyoming big sagebrush, Thurber's needlegrass, and Sandberg's bluegrass.

 

President's Road Ban Threatens Forest Health, Hinders Public Access

A telling example of how wilderness designations can hurt forest health occurred in July,1998 when firefighters in Elko County, Nevada were prevented by wilderness regulations from extinguishing a fire in the federally-protected Cedar Ridge Wilderness Study Area. Only two hundreds yards from the rapidly-growing blaze, Bureau of Land Management officials forbade the firemen from driving their vehicles off the road because regulations do not permit off-road vehicular travel even for emergencies. As a result, more than a thousands acres of federal wilderness needlessly burned.

 

Desert Culture Peoples (B.C. - Coming of White Men)

University of Nevada archaeologists surveyed prehistoric Indian sites at Dixie Flats and Cedar Ridge (Elko), which had been occupied since at least 1000 B.C. Another survey in the Jarbidge area (Elko) revealed sites that had been occupied by prehistoric Indians from about 8000 B.C. as open camps or chipping.

 

 

 

 

Additional Information:  Northeastern Nevada Museum


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