The United States is home to some of the best-looking buttes in the world. These geological landmarks number among the most impressive natural wonders on the planet. Formed over millions of years ...

The Sutter Buttes name debate continues, with proposals like Sacred Buttes and Middle Mountain aiming to honor Native American heritage and history.

Zelda the 23-year-old “zonkey” at Little Buttes Farm in Sutter. Zelda is a type of zebroid, her father was a zebra and her mother was a donkey. She lives with a variety of other intriguing ...

A request to change the name of the Sutter Buttes has led to an outburst of opinions from the public on whether a colonizer’s racist past should define the cluster of volcanic hills colloquially ...

The Sutter Buttes is now mostly private land owned by a handful of farming families. In 2003, California State Parks acquired 1,785 acres on the north side of the Sutter Buttes, but more than 10 ...

The Sutter Buttes are a cluster of volcanic domes about 55 miles northwest of Sacramento, and the remains of the Central Valley’s lone, and now dormant, volcano. Jim Wilson/The New York Times ...

The U.S. Board on Geographic Names is currently seeking feedback on a possible name change of the Sutter Buttes after receiving a formal request to change the name to the Sacred Buttes.

According to NASA, Sutter Buttes is what’s left of a volcano last active during the Pleistocene Epoch, some 1.6 to 1.4 million years ago. The range comprises three parts.