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Mountains in Glacier National Park (U.S.) are part of the Rocky Mountains. 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 ...
Mount Cleveland ranks 50th on the list of peaks in the contiguous U.S. with the greatest topographic prominence. [4] The massif upon which Mount Cleveland is situated also includes 10,001-foot (3,048 m) Kaiser Point, which is the seventh-highest peak in the park and is only .67 mi (1.08 km) to the northeast.
Like other mountains in Glacier National Park, Gardner Point 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) long ...
Topo map(s) USGS Mount Cannon, MT: McPartland Mountain (8,417 feet (2,566 m)) is located in the Livingston Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana.
Glacier National Park is a national park of the United States located in northwestern Montana, on the Canada–United States border.The park encompasses more than 1 million acres (4,100 km 2) and includes parts of two mountain ranges (sub-ranges of the Rocky Mountains), more than 130 named lakes, more than 1,000 different species of plants, and hundreds of species of animals.
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 Grinnell. [4]
James Willard Schultz, author, guide, responsible for naming a great many Glacier peaks, passes and lakes. John Frank Stevens, first European to discover Marias Pass, 1889; Frank B. Wynn, first to climb the highest peak in the park, 1920; Park superintendents and administrators; Park rangers; Engineers and architects; Photographers, artists and ...
The peak is a feature of Glacier National Park in the state of Montana in the United States. [3] The summit of the peak, the hydrological apex of the North American continent, is the point where two of the principal continental divides in North America converge, the Continental Divide of the Americas and the Northern or Laurentian Divide.