Mount Gilbert, Ruby Mountains Wilderness

Name: Mount Gilbert
Address: Ruby Mountains Wilderness, United States

#10 among attractions in Ruby Mountains Wilderness

Natural attraction, Mountain

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Mount Gilbert, Ruby Mountains Wilderness

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Mount Gilbert is the sixth-highest named mountain of the Ruby Mountains and the eighth-highest in Elko County, in Nevada, United States. It is the forty-third-highest mountain in the state. The peak is a spectacular part of the view from State Route 227 in Lamoille Valley, rising over 5,300 feet above the valley floor at Lamoille. It rises from the head of Seitz Canyon, and is part of the west wall of Right Fork Canyon. The summit is a high glacial horn, located about 22 miles southeast of the community of Elko within the Ruby Mountains Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. ()

Elevation: 11125 ftProminence: 480 ftCoordinates: 40°37'28"N, 115°26'46"W

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Mount Gilbert – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Liberty Lake, Dollar Lakes, Island Lake, Lamoille Lake.

4 miSE
Natural attraction, Lake
Liberty Lake, Ruby Mountains Wilderness
102 min walk • Liberty Lake is a glacial tarn in the Ruby Mountains of Elko County, Nevada, United States. It is within the Ruby Mountains Wilderness, which is administered by the Ruby Mountains Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
3.9 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Dollar Lakes, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
101 min walk • Dollar Lakes are a group of three glacial tarns in the Ruby Mountains of Elko County, Nevada, United States. They are within the Ruby Mountains Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
3.5 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Island Lake, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
89 min walk • Island Lake is a glacial tarn in the Ruby Mountains of Elko County, Nevada, United States. It is within the Ruby Mountains Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
3.5 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Lamoille Lake, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
88 min walk • Lamoille Lake is a glacial tarn in the Ruby Mountains of Elko County, Nevada, United States. It is within the Ruby Mountains Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
4.4 miSE
Natural attraction, Lake
Favre Lake, Ruby Mountains Wilderness
112 min walk • Favre Lake is a glacial tarn in the Ruby Mountains of Elko County, Nevada, United States. It is within the Ruby Mountains Wilderness, which is administered by the Ruby Mountains Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
2.2 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Griswold Lake, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
56 min walk • Griswold Lake is a glacial tarn in the Ruby Mountains of Elko County, Nevada, United States. It is within the Ruby Mountains Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
1.5 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Ruby Dome, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
39 min walk • Ruby Dome is the highest mountain in both the Ruby Mountains and Elko County, in Nevada, United States. It is the twenty-seventh-highest mountain in the state, and also ranks as the thirteenth-most topographically prominent peak in the state.
2.9 miSE
Natural attraction, Mountain
Snow Lake Peak, Ruby Mountains Wilderness
74 min walk • Snow Lake Peak is the fifth-highest named mountain of the Ruby Mountains and the seventh-highest in Elko County, in Nevada, United States. It is the forty-second-highest mountain in the state.
0.8 miS
Natural attraction, Lake
Echo Lake, Ruby Mountains Wilderness
21 min walk • Echo Lake is a glacial tarn in the Ruby Mountains, in Elko County in the northeastern part of the state of Nevada. It is located at the head of remote Echo Canyon at approximately 40°36.7′N 115°26.8′W, and at an elevation of 9830 feet.
0.9 miNE
Natural attraction, Canyon
Right Fork Canyon, Ruby Mountains Wilderness
23 min walk • Right Fork Canyon is a major branch of Lamoille Canyon, located in the Ruby Mountains of Elko County, in the northeastern section of the state of Nevada in the western United States.
4.8 miE
Natural attraction, Mountain
Verdi Peak, Ruby Mountains Wilderness
123 min walk • The Verdi Peaks, officially just Verdi Peak, are a group of three mountain peaks in the Ruby Mountains of Elko County, Nevada, United States. The highest peak is the fiftieth-highest in the state.