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Mount Cleveland is the highest mountain in Glacier National Park, located in Montana, United States. [3] It is also the highest point in the Lewis Range, which spans part of the northern portion of the park and extends into Canada. It is located approximately 3 mi (4.8 km) southeast of the southern end of Waterton Lake, and approximately 5 mi ...
There are at least 150 named mountain peaks over 8,000 feet (2,400 m) in Glacier in three mountain ranges --the Clark Range, Lewis Range, Livingston Range. Mount Cleveland at 10,479 feet (3,194 m) [1] is the highest peak in the park. [2] Many peaks in Glacier National Park have both English and anglicized versions of native American names.
Chief Mountain (Blackfoot: Ninaistako) (9,085 feet (2,769 m)) is located in the U.S. state of Montana on the eastern border of Glacier National Park and the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. [4][5] The mountain is one of the most prominent peaks and rock formations along the Rocky Mountain Front, a 200 miles (320 km) long overthrust fault, known as ...
Mount Grinnell. Mount Grinnell is a peak located in the heart of Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. Lying just east of the Continental Divide in the Many Glacier region of the park, the peak is flanked to the northwest by Swiftcurrent Glacier and to the south by Grinnell Glacier. [3] Mount Grinnell is named after George Bird ...
Glacier National Park is a national park of the United States located in northwestern Montana, on the Canada–United States border, adjacent to Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada—the two parks are known as the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. The park encompasses more than 1 million acres (4,100 km 2) and includes parts of two ...
McPartland Mountain (8,417 feet (2,566 m)) is located in the Livingston Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. McPartland Mountain is a little more than a mile south of Heavens Peak. [3] The mountain's name is believed to refer to Frank McPartland, of eastern Montana, who worked around nearby Lake McDonald for two seasons ...
1907. Easiest route. Hike, scramble class 4. Going-to-the-Sun Mountain is a 9,647-foot (2,940 m) mountain peak located in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. It rises dramatically above St. Mary Valley just north of the Going-to-the-Sun Road. [3] The mountain was named by James Willard Schultz in 1888.
Like other mountains in Glacier National Park, Reynolds Mountain is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of precambrian rocks 3 mi (4.8 km) thick, 50 miles (80 km) wide and 160 miles (260 km ...