Raft River Mountains

[1][2] The mountains are located in the Raft River Division of the Minidoka Ranger District of the Sawtooth National Forest.

The highest point is Bull Mountain, near the Dunn Benchmark, at 9,925 ft (3,025 m), and the ghost town of Yost is on the north-central slopes.

[8] The Elba Quartzite with interlayered schist outcrops along the southern slopes of the range and in the Grouse Creek Mountains to the southwest.

The thinly bedded quartzites have been quarried for building stone in the area.

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The Raft River Mountains are the southeast edge of the Columbia Basin (green) in the small northwest Utah portion of the Great Basin Divide . The Great Basin side (tan) of the range is in the Northern Great Salt Lake Desert Watershed (formerly of the Pleistocene Lake Bonneville ).
An old Forest Service Cabin in the Raft River Mountains
Road along a snowbank in the Raft River Mountains