Abiathar Peak
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Abiathar Peak rises to 3,331 m in Wyoming. Glacier Peak stands 3,762 m to the northeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Amphitheater Mountain, a peak 1.3 miles away. Beartooth Highway passes 2.5 miles off.
The story
Abiathar Peak is a mountain peak with an elevation of 10,928 feet (3,331 m) in the northeastern section of Yellowstone National Park, in the Absaroka Range of the U.S. state of Wyoming. It sits across and east of its better known neighbor, Barronette Peak. The peak was named by members of the 1885 Hague Geological Survey to honor Charles Abiathar White, a geologist and paleontologist who had participated in early western geological surveys. White never visited Yellowstone.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q4667554, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3331 m
How to reach it
- 2.5 mi off the Beartooth Highway, National
- 15.0 mi off the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Pilot & Index · 11 mi
- Crazy Creek · 13 mi
- Falls · 16 mi
- Pilot-Index overlook · 19 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Amphitheater Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Barronette Peak: 2.8 mi
- Meridian Peak: 3.9 mi
- Republic Mountain: 4.1 mi
- Mineral Mountain: 4.2 mi
- Crazy Creek Falls: 12.8 mi
- Impasse Falls: 17.3 mi
- Tower Fall: 18.3 mi
- Lost Creek Falls: 19.5 mi
- Beartooth Falls: 21.1 mi
- Warm Creek Picnic Area: 2.0 mi
- Soda Butte Creek: 3.8 mi
- Yellowstone River Picnic Area: 18.5 mi
- Reef Creek: 24.7 mi
- Soda Butte Cone: 8.9 mi
- Devil's Den: 18.3 mi
- Clay Butte Lookout: 19.9 mi
- Petrified Tree: 20.3 mi
- Cooke City Historical Marker: 4.6 mi
- Willow Park: 10.3 mi
- Wahb spring: 11.3 mi
- Calcite Springs: 18.4 mi
- Overhanging Cliff: 18.3 mi
- Cathedral Cliffs: 24.1 mi
- Gallery Dan Hartman: 3.4 mi
- Erma Number 1 Mine: 5.3 mi
- Cooke City Montana Museum: 5.6 mi
- Absaroka–Beartooth Wilderness: 20.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.8 miles of Abiathar Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glacier Peak | NE 36° | 3,762 m | 15.0 mi |
| Mount Villard | NE 39° | 3,735 m | 15.5 mi |
| Mount Wilse | NE 37° | 3,593 m | 13.5 mi |
| Wolf Mountain | NNE 26° | 3,582 m | 13.4 mi |
| Iceberg Peak | NNE 33° | 3,513 m | 12.8 mi |
| Pilot Peak | E 89° | 3,512 m | 7.3 mi |
| Mount Zimmer | NE 35° | 3,511 m | 11.9 mi |
| Sawtooth Mountain | NNE 29° | 3,498 m | 13.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:54 | 19:33 |
| June solstice | 05:34 | 20:26 | 21:11 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:41 | 19:19 |
| December solstice | 07:56 | 15:53 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jul–Aug.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 15 | 18 | 25 | 32 | 41 | 49 | 56 | 54 | 47 | 36 | 22 | 14 |
| Precip in | 2.2 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cooke City 2 W, 4 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Yellowstone National Park. Quietest months by visitation: Nov and Mar; busiest: Jul.
NPS visitation statistics, monthly averages 2021–2025 (2020 excluded).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1584691 — Abiathar Peak, Park County, Wyoming.
OpenStreetMap element node/356498733
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