Cities Built at the Base of Mountains
Front Range of the Rocky Mountains: Denver, Colorado Springs Sierra Nevada: Reno Wasatch Mountains: Salt Lake City Ko'Olau Range: Honolulu Boise Mountains: Boise Sandia Mountains: Albuquerque Chugach Mountains: Anchorage Most other cities in the West have mountains in view when skies are clear and unsmoggy: the cities of California's Central Valley (Sacramento, Stockton, Fresno, Bakersfield) are near the Sierra Nevada; Los Angeles is near the San Gabriel Mountains; Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland are near the Cascades; Phoenix, Tucson, and Las Vegas are among desert mountains. |  Salt Lake City and Wasatch Mountains |