The Pacific Coast Ranges (in Canada) or Pacific Mountain System (United States) are the series of mountain ranges that stretch along the west coast of North America from Alaska south to northern and central Mexico. They are part of the Western Cordillera (sometimes known in Canada as the Pacific Cordillera and also as the Canadian Cordillera), which includes the Rocky, Columbia Mountains, Interior Mountains, the Interior Plateau, Sierra Nevada, G...
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The Pacific Coast Ranges (in Canada) or Pacific Mountain System (United States) are the series of mountain ranges that stretch along the west coast of North America from Alaska south to northern and central Mexico. They are part of the Western Cordillera (sometimes known in Canada as the Pacific Cordillera and also as the Canadian Cordillera), which includes the Rocky, Columbia Mountains, Interior Mountains, the Interior Plateau, Sierra Nevada, Great Basin and other ranges and various plateaus and basins. The Pacific Coast Ranges designation, however, only applies to the Western System of the Western Cordillera, which comprises the Saint Elias Mountains, Coast Mountains, Insular Mountains, Olympic Mountains, Cascade Range, Oregon Coast Range, California Coast Ranges and the Sierra Nevada. The term "Coast Range" is used by the United States Geological Survey to refer only to the ranges south from the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Mexican border west of Puget Sound and the Williamette...
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