Nopah Peak is the highest named mountain in the Nopah Range, a mountain range in Inyo County, California, in the Mojave Desert just west of the state border with Nevada.

The peak has an elevation of 6,365 feet (1,940 metres) and a topographic prominence of 628 ft (191 m).

[1][2] It boasts steep escarpments to both east and west, rising more than 3,000 ft (914 m) in approximately 0.75 miles from the desert floor of Chicago Valley to the west and a drop-off almost as steep to the east.

This Nopah Range high point often sees more peak-bagger traffic and attention than Nopah Peak itself, because of its prominence: at 3,565 ft (1,087 m), it is the 27th most-prominent summit in California, and thus included on the Sierra Club Desert Peaks Section (DPS), a list of noteworthy desert peaks.

It may be taken from pah, a generic Shoshoni word for water which appears in names elsewhere in the Great Basin region (such as Tonopah and Ivanpah).