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These remnants of a dormant volcano are colloquially referred to as the world's smallest mountain range. [2] The Sutter Buttes have as their highest point the summit of South Butte, at 2,122 ft (647 m), which is also the highest point in Sutter County. [3] At the base of the mountain is the small town of Sutter.
For the last two decades, the Sutter Buttes have also been home to a California state park that almost no one is allowed to visit. In 2003, the state of California spent about $3 million to buy ...
The Sutter Buttes are not technically a mountain range, but the leftovers of volcanic action that occurred more than a million years ago. The remnants of the dormant volcano created a ring that ...
Recently, a petition was filed to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to change the name of the Sutter Buttes. Could ‘world’s smallest mountain range’ get new name? What Sutter Buttes could ...
Sutter County is home to the Sutter Buttes, known as the "World's Smallest Mountain Range." This volcanic formation provides relief to the otherwise seemingly flat Sacramento Valley. Bordered by the Sacramento River on the west and the Feather River on the east, Sutter County has 240 miles
19th century etching depicting the Sutter Buttes in the Sacramento Valley. The terrain of the Sacramento Valley is primarily flat grasslands that become lusher as one moves east from the rain shadow of the Coast Ranges toward the Sierra. Unlike the San Joaquin Valley, which in its pre-irrigation state was a vegetation-hostile desert, the ...
Aug. 8—The Sutter Buttes mountain range offers one of the most iconic views across county lines with thousands of pictures taken year round by both tourists and residents alike. Facebook pages ...
The Cascade–Siskiyou National Monument is a United States national monument that protects 114,000 acres (46,134 ha) [1] of forest and grasslands at the junction of the Cascade Range and the Siskiyou Mountains in Southwestern Oregon and Northwestern California, United States. The monument is managed by the Bureau of Land Management as part of ...