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The Sawtooth Mountains on the shore of Lake Superior, looking west by southwest from Grand Marais, Minnesota. The Sawtooth Mountains are a range of small mountains on the North Shore of Lake Superior in the U.S. state of Minnesota, extending about 30 miles (48 km) from Carlton Peak near Tofte on the west, to Grand Marais on the east.
Moose Mountain is a peak in the Sawtooth Mountains of northeastern Minnesota in the United States.Its elevation is 1,689 feet (515 meters) above sea level. [1] Located close to Lake Superior and reaching 1,087 feet (331 m) above its waters, it is part of the Lutsen Mountains ski resort.
Sawtooth Range (British Columbia) in the Monashee Mountains of British Columbia, Canada Sawtooth Range (Nunavut) in Nunavut, Canada Sawtooth Ridge (California, Hoover Wilderness) , on the Sierra Crest ( 38°06′19″N 119°23′44″W / 38.105251°N 119.395466°W / 38.105251; -119.395466
High points include the Sawtooth Mountains, a range of hills along the shore of Lake Superior, the Misquah Hills including Eagle Mountain, the state's highest point, and other uplands along the Laurentian Divide separating the watershed of the Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean from that of Hudson Bay and the Arctic Ocean.
The mountain was named in honor of a young woman, Josephine Godfrey of Detroit, Michigan, who led a party of young friends on a daylong excursion from Grand Portage, Minnesota to the summit in 1853. Miss Godfrey's father, John Godfrey, owned a trading post at the present site of Grand Marais, Minnesota until 1858. [2]
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Carlton Peak [1] is a summit in the Sawtooth Mountains in southern Tofte Township, Cook County, in northeastern Minnesota in the United States. In 1848, Reuben B. Carlton of Fond du Lac, Minnesota, ascended the peak with Col. Charles Whittlesey, who was participating in a geological survey expedition.