Pahute Mesa (landform)

The mesa is variable in width but generally from 20 to 25 mi wide. The mesa extends northwest to southeast with the east merging into the Eleana Range at the center-north of the Nevada Test Site. The mesa forms the southwest border of the Nellis Air Force Range, at the northeast of Sarcobatus Flat; the Nellis Range border then turns north to end adjacent Tonopah, Nevada, about distant. Peaks, and highpoint The highest peak in the northwest end of the mesa is Tolicha Peak, . Quartz Mountain, , is adjacent east. Other peaks occur in the southeast where the mesa merges into the northwest of the Eleana Range. ==Access==

Route U.S. 95 traverses the southwest border of Pahute Mesa at the northeast of Sarcobatus Flat, the road from Beatty to Goldfield, Nevada. Since the mesa and regions north are part of the Nellis Air Force Range, access from the north is from Tonopah and U.S. Route 6 in Nevada, going by way of Gold Flat and other regions south of the Cactus Range, anchoring the northwest corner of the Air Force Range. ==See also==