Kyes Peak, Mountain summit in Central Cascades, Washington, United States

Kyes Peak is the highest summit of the Monte Cristo group in the North Cascades, rising over 7,280 feet (2,220 m). With Columbia Peak and Monte Cristo Peak it encloses a basin holding Columbia Glacier and Blanca Lake. Its slopes are craggy, with glacial valleys and ridges.

Kyes Peak was mapped as Goblin Peak and known to miners and the U.S. Forest Service as Mount Michigan. On August 15, 1920, James Ellsworth Kyes and Reginald Bachelder, then Everett Boy Scouts, made the first recorded ascent. The USGS later renamed the peak in Kyes's honor after he died commanding a destroyer in the Battle of the Atlantic. Thomas Gerdine of the USGS may have climbed it earlier, in 1897.

Miners and the U.S. Forest Service once called the mountain Mount Michigan, and it appeared on maps as Goblin Peak. The name Kyes honors Commander James Ellsworth Kyes, who with Reginald Bachelder made the first recorded ascent on August 15, 1920, as members of the Everett Boy Scouts.

The climb demands experience and physical endurance, with challenging routes and steep sections throughout. Visitors should prepare for changing weather and variable conditions, especially in glacial areas.

Kyes Peak is the highest summit in the Monte Cristo group, and its basin holds both Columbia Glacier and Blanca Lake. The name honours Commander James Ellsworth Kyes, who climbed the mountain on 15 August 1920 with Reginald Bachelder while both were Everett Boy Scouts. Naming a Washington Cascades peak after the person who climbed it is uncommon; the USGS agreed to the posthumous renaming for his command of a destroyer in the Battle of the Atlantic.