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Granite Mountain
Granite Mountain is a 7,628-foot massif of pale, weather-rounded granite in the Sierra Prieta range north of Prescott, Arizona. The rock here is the Mint Wash Granodiorite, a Paleoproterozoic intrusion dated to about 1.68 billion years old — among the oldest exposed bedrock in…
About Granite Mountain (Arizona)
Granite Mountain is a 7,628-foot (2,325 m) mountain located in Yavapai County, Arizona that covers roughly 12 square miles (31 km2). It was once known as Mount Gurley, for the first governor of the Arizona Territory, John A. Gurley. Its southwest face has a sheer granite cliff approximately 500 feet high that is one of the best locations for rock climbing in the state of Arizona. It is located in the Granite Mountain Wilderness, which is managed as a part of the Prescott National Forest. The mountain stands at the northern end of the Sierra Prietas, and borders Skull Valley on the west, on the northwest by the Santa Maria Mountains, and east by the Williamson Valley.
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