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[[File:Santa monica mountains canyon.jpg|right|thumbnail|Malibu Canyon, Santa Monica Mountains]]
'''The''' '''Pacific Coast Ranges''' (officially gazetted as the '''Pacific Mountain System'''<ref>[http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/physio.xml ''Physiographic regions of the United States'', USGS]</ref> in the [[United States]] but referred to as the Pacific Coast Ranges),<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=V2d12iZkgOwC&pg=PA361 Merriam-Webster's collegiate encyclopedia]'', page 361 (Merriam-Webster, 2000).</ref> are the series of [[mountain range]]s that stretch along the West Coast of [[North America]] from [[Alaska]] south to Northern and Central [[Mexico]]. Although they are commonly thought to be the westernmost mountain range of the continental United States and Canada, the geologically distinct [[Insular Mountains]] of [[Vancouver Island]] lie further west.
The Pacific Coast Ranges are part of the [[North American Cordillera]] (sometimes known as the Western Cordillera, or in [[Canada]], as the Pacific Cordillera and/or the Canadian Cordillera), which includes the [[Rocky Mountains]], [[Columbia Mountains]], [[Interior Mountains]], the [[Interior Plateau]], [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|Sierra Nevada Mountains]], the [[:Category:Mountain ranges of the Great Basin|Great Basin mountain ranges]], and other ranges and various plateaus and basins.
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