Mount Scott

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Mount Scott
View of Mount Scott from the southwest

View of Mount Scott from the southwest

height 2722  m
location Oregon , USA
Mountains Cascade chain
Coordinates 42 ° 55 '25 "  N , 122 ° 0' 53"  W Coordinates: 42 ° 55 '25 "  N , 122 ° 0' 53"  W.
Topo map USGS Crater Lake East
Mount Scott (Oregon)
Mount Scott
Type Stratovolcano
Age of the rock 420,000 years
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Mount Scott is a stratovolcano in the US state of Oregon . It is part of the Cascade Range and is just four kilometers east of Crater Lake . Mount Scott is the highest point in Crater Lake National Park and is 917 meters high . There is a forest fire watchtower on the summit . This is located at the end of a path that leads up the mountain for a short distance of around 500 meters. The volcano was named after the place Scottsburg , or its founder Levi Scott .

photos

  • Looking southeast over Crater Lake. Mount Scott is behind the lake in the center of the picture.

  • The forest fire watchtower on the top of the volcano

Web links

Commons : Mount Scott (Klamath County, Oregon)  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Corning, Howard M. Dictionary of Oregon History . Binfords & Mort Publishing, 1956.