Medicine Butte, Mountain summit in Uinta County, Wyoming, United States
Medicine Butte is a flat-topped mountain in Uinta County, Wyoming, 6.9 miles north of Evanston, reaching 8,610 feet (2,624 m). Its summit is capped by resistant sandstone and conglomerate of the Wasatch Formation, and outcrops of the Evanston Formation are visible at its southern end. Radio and television towers stand on the plateau.
Native Americans named the butte for the many herbs and roots they gathered on its slopes for medicine. It was also called "Fremont's Monument" after explorer John C. Fremont. The butte lies within the Sevier orogeny landscape, where mountain building began about 120 million years ago and older sedimentary rocks were thrust eastward over younger ones.
The butte's name comes from the herbs and roots Native Americans gathered on its slopes for medicine; it is also called "Fremont's Monument" after John C. Fremont. Its summit carries two higher-power FM stations plus numerous translators, amateur radio repeaters such as K70GM on 146.680 MHz, and emergency towers for Evanston, Uinta County and Daggett County, Utah.
Access is via Red Willow Road, which connects to US Highway 89 and leads to the summit, requiring a four-wheel drive vehicle. The route is demanding and visitors should prepare for rough terrain and changing weather.
KNYN, the highest-power FM station on the butte, lost part of its tower to a collapse in 2005, apparently caused by heavy icing, and has broadcast on lower power with a backup transmitter since. Amateur radio operators also keep repeaters here, including one owned by a resident of Manila, Utah, on 146.680 MHz.
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