Rogers Peak is the fourth-highest mountain of the Panamint Range,[3] and it is set within Death Valley National Park and the Mojave Desert.

Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 10,200 feet (3,109 meters) above Badwater Basin in 12 miles (19 km).

[4] The summit offers a stunning 360-degree panorama of Death Valley and the eastern Sierra Nevada mountain range including the lowest and highest points in the contiguous United States: Badwater Basin and Mount Whitney.

The summit of Rogers Peak has been used as a communications and instrumentation site by various government agencies since the late 1950s.

[1] The peak is named after John Haney Rogers (1822–1906), a member of a party of settlers who became lost and stranded in Death Valley in 1850.