The El Paso Mountains are located in the northern Mojave Desert, in central Southern California in the Western United States.

The range lies in a southwest-northeasterly direction east of State Route 14, and north of the Rand Mountains and Randsburg Red Rock Road.

Red Rock Canyon State Park lies at the western end of the range.

Vegetation primarily consists of creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) scrub community, with Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) on the western side of the range.

They created extensive carvings in rock within the El Paso and neighboring mountains,[2] and conducted considerable trade with other tribes as distant as the Chumash on the Pacific coast.