Mount Emerson, Mountain in Inyo County, California, United States

Mount Emerson is a mountain in the Sierra Nevada, in Inyo County, eastern California, reaching 4,014 metres. It rises about 227 metres above the surrounding terrain, with a base width of roughly 1.6 kilometres. The summit lies 3.5 kilometres from a higher peak of 4,207 metres.

Mount Emerson was named by John Muir after the essayist, poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. In a letter to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, Muir wrote: "I have named a grand wide-winged mountain on the head of the Joaquin Mount Emerson." It has been suggested that Muir may have meant to honour Emerson on Mount Humphreys, which the Whitney Survey had already named.

Mount Emerson was named by John Muir, who wrote to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr of "a grand wide-winged mountain on the head of the Joaquin" whose "wings are white with ice and snow." It has been suggested Muir meant the poet's name for Mount Humphreys, already named by the Whitney Survey.

Mount Emerson rises to 4,014 m in Inyo County, about 3,600 km west of Washington, D.C., and the nearest higher summit, at 4,207 m, lies 3.5 km to the south. The surrounding terrain is mostly sagebrush with lakes, mineral deposits, flats and ice nearby. Fewer than two people live per square kilometre, so plan self-sufficiently.

John Muir named the peak for Ralph Waldo Emerson, writing to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr that he had named "a grand wide-winged mountain on the head of the Joaquin Mount Emerson." Scholars suggest Muir may have meant the name for Mount Humphreys, already named by the Whitney Survey.