Mount Washburn
| Mount Washburn | ||
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 Summit from the south |
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| height | 3122 m | |
| location | Wyoming ( USA ) | |
| Mountains | Rocky mountains | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 48 '0 " N , 110 ° 25' 48" W | |
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The Mount Washburn is a 3122 m high mountain in the Yellowstone National Park .
location
Mount Washburn is about 10 km north of Canyon Village and 20 km south of Tower-Roosevelt, east over Dunraven Pass. Its summit can be reached from different directions via several hiking trails.
geology
At 3,122 m , it is the seventh highest mountain in the Gallatin Range . The summit is on the edge of the Yellowstone Caldera . Mount Washburn is therefore a remnant of the former Absaroka volcano and was formed around 50 million years ago.
history
The mountain was first described by the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition in 1870 . It was named after Henry Dana Washburn , the leader of this first systematic expedition to the Yellowstone area. Due to its exposed location, it soon developed into a popular excursion destination after the national park was founded. A building that serves as a forest fire observation post has also been erected on its summit. During the New Deal , the current building was built in 1939-40 as part of the Civilian Conservation Corps . On the ground floor there is now a small visitor center with information about the geology and ecology of the area, above which there is a publicly accessible viewing platform. The upper floors are still a fire observation post manned around the clock during the forest fire season.
Web links
- Mount Washburn on Peakbagger.com (English)
- Official site of the Yellowstone Park (English)
- Webcam Mt.Washburn (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ .yellowstonenationalpark.com / hiking: [1]
- ↑ Peakbagger.com: Gallatin Range
- ↑ .yellowstonenationalpark.com / geology: [2]
- ↑ Hiram Martin Chittenden : The Yellowstone Park-Historical and Descriptive . Stewart and Kidd Company Publishers, Cincinnati, OH 1918, p. 65.
- ↑ .yellowstonewiki.com: [3]