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A Volcano Built These Lonely Peaks
You can be cruising through miles of flat Sacramento Valley farmland when a ring of rocky peaks rises straight out of nowhere.
People call this the world’s smallest mountain range, though it isn’t a true mountain range at all. The peaks circle about 10 miles across, and on a clear day, you can spot them from miles off.
Almost none of the land inside belongs to the public, and getting past the gates means someone has to let you in.
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A Ring of Peaks Rising From Farmland
These peaks aren’t a true mountain range pushed up over millions of years like the Sierra Nevada. They’re leftovers of an old volcano, and they sit north of Sacramento in the middle of the valley floor…