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Baldy Mountain
mountain, Arizona, United States
Also known as: Dzil Ligai
Baldy Mountain, summit (11,403 feet [3,476 metres]) in the White Mountains, Apache county, eastern Arizona, U.S. Springs on the mountainās northern slope form the headwaters of the Little Colorado River. Also called Dzil Ligai (Apache: āMountain of White Rockā), Baldy is located within a 7,000-acre (2,833 hectare) wilderness area; the summit and southern flank lie within the White Mountain Apache Reservation, and access by non-Apaches is prohibited. It is the second highest point in Arizona, exceeded only by Humphreys Peak (12,633 feet [3,851 metres]) in the San Francisco Mountains. Nineteenth-century documents sometimes refer to the mountain as Mount Thomas.
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