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Mount Whitney
Mount Whitney
is the highest summit in the
contiguous United States
and the
Sierra Nevada
, with an elevation of . It is on the boundary between California's
Inyo
and
Tulare
counties, west-northwest of the lowest point in North America at
Badwater
in
Death Valley National Park
at below sea level. The west slope of the mountain is in
Sequoia National Park
and the summit is the southern terminus of the
John Muir Trail
which runs from
Happy Isles
in
Yosemite Valley
. The east slope is in the
Inyo National Forest
in
Inyo County
.
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