Saddle Mountain, Mountain summit in Yellowstone National Park, United States
Saddle Mountain is a 10,670-foot (3,250 m) summit in the northeast quadrant of Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming, and the 20th-highest peak in the park. It belongs to the Absaroka Range, part of the Rocky Mountains. Its southeast face drops about 2,900 feet (880 m) to the Lamar River in roughly two miles. Little Saddle Mountain lies 1.5 miles southwest.
The peak was already known by its name in publications before 1899, long before the United States Board on Geographic Names officially recognized it in 1930. This early naming suggests that surveyors and cartographers had mapped the region and used local geographical references well before any formal designation.
The name Saddle Mountain was already in use before 1899, when Henry Gannett listed it in A Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States; the United States Board on Geographic Names adopted it officially in 1930. The peak is the 20th-highest in Yellowstone National Park.
Saddle Mountain lies in the northeast quadrant of Yellowstone National Park, in Park County, Wyoming, within the Absaroka Range. Its southeast face drops about 2,900 feet (880 m) to the Lamar River in roughly two miles, so approach and route-finding follow that steep drainage. The summit is the park's 20th-highest peak, and the nearest named neighbour, Little Saddle Mountain, stands 1.5 miles to the southwest.
The name was already in use before 1899, when Henry Gannett listed it in A Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States; the United States Board on Geographic Names adopted it officially only in 1930. The summit is the 20th-highest peak in Yellowstone National Park.
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