Dunraven Peak
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Dunraven Peak rises to 3,008 m in Wyoming. Mount Holmes stands 3,149 m to the west, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Hedges Peak, a peak 0.6 miles away. Beartooth Highway passes 28 miles off.
The story
Dunraven Peak el. 9,869 feet (3,008 m) is a mountain peak in the Washburn Range of Yellowstone National Park. In 1874, just two years after the park's creation, The 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, an Anglo-Irish peer, made a visit to Yellowstone in conjunction with a hunting expedition led by Texas Jack Omohundro to the Northern Rockies. Lord Dunraven was so impressed with the park, that he devoted well over 150 pages to Yellowstone in his The Great Divide, published in London in 1874. The Great Divide was one of the earliest works to praise and publicize the park. In 1878, during a U.S. Geological Survey of the park, Henry Gannett, a geographer working with the survey, named a peak just two miles southwest of Mount Washburn in honor of Lord Dunraven and the service his book had done for the park. In 1879, Philetus Norris, the park Superintendent, gave a pass on the Grand Loop Road between Tower and Canyon the name Dunraven Pass because of its proximity to Dunraven Peak.
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Wikidata Q5315655, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3,008 m
How to reach it
- 27.5 mi off the Beartooth Highway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Hedges Peak: 0.6 mi
- Mount Washburn: 2.0 mi
- Observation Peak: 3.9 mi
- Cook Peak: 6.6 mi
- Folsom Peak: 7.3 mi
- Calcite Springs: 9.2 mi
- Turbulent Pool: 10.8 mi
- Dragon's Mouth Spring: 11.0 mi
- Mud Caldron: 11.1 mi
- Whiterock Springs: 11.2 mi
- Grizzly Fumarole: 11.1 mi
- Churning Caldron: 11.3 mi
- Sour Lake: 11.3 mi
- Medusa Spring: 12.6 mi
- Frying Pan Spring: 12.6 mi
- Dunraven Road Picnic Area: 1.4 mi
- Cascade Lake Trail Picnic Area: 2.3 mi
- Chittenden Bridge Picnic Area: 5.4 mi
- Otter Creek Picnic Area: 6.0 mi
- Virginia Cascades Picnic Area: 9.4 mi
- Canyon Horse Corral: 4.4 mi
- Devil's Den: 8.6 mi
- Petrified Tree: 9.3 mi
- Mud Volcano Area: 11.2 mi
- Norris Geyser Basin: 12.1 mi
- Silver Cord Cascade: 4.0 mi
- Lower Yellowstone Falls: 4.7 mi
- Crystal Falls: 4.8 mi
- Upper Yellowstone Falls: 5.1 mi
- Tower Fall: 8.7 mi
- Overhanging Cliff: 8.8 mi
- Obsidian Cliff: 12.9 mi
- Sheepeater Cliffs: 14.5 mi
- Storm Point: 17.5 mi
- Gull Point: 17.8 mi
- Museum of the National Park Ranger: 11.6 mi
- Norris Geyser Basin Museum: 12.1 mi
- Willow Park: 14.5 mi
- Arch Park: 20.7 mi
- Yellowstone National Park: 11.3 mi
- Queen's Laundry Bath House: 24.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.2 miles of Dunraven Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Holmes | W 278° | 3,149 m | 19.1 mi |
| Mount Washburn | ENE 60° | 3,122 m | 2.0 mi |
| Mount Hornaday | NE 55° | 3,049 m | 19.4 mi |
| Antler Peak | WNW 288° | 3,048 m | 18.9 mi |
| Quadrant Mountain | WNW 295° | 3,034 m | 19.6 mi |
| Dome Mountain | WNW 282° | 3,018 m | 18.6 mi |
| Mount Norris | ENE 71° | 3,000 m | 19.4 mi |
| Cook Peak | NW 309° | 2,973 m | 6.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:26 | 18:56 | 19:34 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 20:27 | 21:12 |
| September equinox | 07:10 | 18:43 | 19:21 |
| December solstice | 07:57 | 15:56 | 16:44 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 15 | 19 | 28 | 36 | 45 | 53 | 60 | 59 | 50 | 38 | 25 | 15 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tower Falls, 10 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356500771
Day trips start here
- Yellowstone National Park · 12 mi
- Gardiner · 21 mi
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