 The short range is only about long.The Date Creek Mountains are located in the western region of the Arizona transition zone on its southwest.It borders the lower elevation Sonoran Desert to the southwest, where U.S. Route 93 in Arizona travels northwest x southeast, from Phoenix, Arizona to Kingman, Arizona, a stretch called the Joshua Tree Highway; the "Yucca brevifolia" Joshua trees find their southeast range here, as does an extension southeast of the Mojave Desert.