About: Granite Mountains (California)

The Granite Mountains are a small mountain range in San Bernardino County, California, USA, located in the Mojave Desert. They are in the Mojave National Preserve, in the National Park Service system. The University of California operates the Granite Mountain Natural Reserve on 9000 acres of land within the Mojave National Preserve. The Granite Mountains Natural Reserve is a research and teaching center that was established by the late Professor Dr. Kenneth Norris of U.C. Santa Cruz in 1978 and is now managed out of UC Riverside. Students and faculty have completed extensive studies of the natural history of the Granite Mountains since the reserve's inception. This is one of 37 reserves in the UC Natural Reserve System.