Lanfair Valley

Lanfair Valley is located in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California near the Nevada state line.

It passes eastwards just south of center at the Piute Range, and then through a central-southern stretch of the Piute Valley to its eastern terminus at Bullhead City Park, west bank of the Colorado River opposite Bullhead City, Arizona.

The Castle Mountains National Monument is part of the north and northeast perimeter of Lanfair Valley, (its watershed).

Tens of thousand of acres in the valley are privately held, despite being located in the Mojave National Preserve.

Few people live in the valley today, but at one time there were schools, farms, post offices, and even a railroad.

The Mojave National Preserve & Mojave Trails National Monument region ( Nevada / California ). The Landsat aerial photo shows Lake Mohave on the Colorado River at upper right. The two ~~north-south valleys paralleling the mostly south-trending mountain ranges at the rivers west, are the south-trending Lanfair Valley (west) and the Piute Valley (east).
(The Castle Mountains National Monument is at the north and northeast perimeter of Lanfair Valley.)
Lanfair ghost town
complete west-to-east Lanfair Valley vista to Piute Range (from foothills of New York Mountains , about 14 miles across valley