Mount Vaught
Mount Vaught rises to 2,679 m in Montana. Mount Jackson stands 3,064 m to the southeast, 8.9 miles off. The nearest named place is McPartland Mountain, a peak 0.8 miles away.
The story
Mount Vaught (8,854 feet (2,699 m)) is located in the Livingston Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. Mount Vaught is just over 2 miles (3.2 km) SSW of Heavens Peak. The mountain is named for Lawrence O. Vaught, a lawyer from Jacksonville, Illinois, who spent many of his summers in Glacier Park and corresponded with George Bird Grinnell, who named many of the features in the park.
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Wikidata Q6924314, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2679 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- McPartland Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Stanton Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Heavens Peak: 2.1 mi
- Rogers Peak: 2.9 mi
- Mount Brown: 3.9 mi
- Red Rock Falls: 2.8 mi
- McDonald Falls: 2.9 mi
- Monument Falls: 5.1 mi
- Bird Woman Falls: 6.0 mi
- Akaiyan Falls: 6.1 mi
- Glacier Wall: 4.3 mi
- Dragon’s Tail: 6.3 mi
- McGee Hill: 9.7 mi
- Grinnell Point: 11.4 mi
- Carnelian Cliff: 13.4 mi
- Belton Stage Park: 14.7 mi
- Malmstrom Air Force Base Recreation Area: 22.1 mi
- Berne Memorial Park: 23.0 mi
- Bad Rock Canyon Historical Marker: 24.5 mi
- Surrounded by Wilderness Historical Marker: 24.5 mi
- Weeping Wall: 6.9 mi
- Weeping Wall: 7.4 mi
- Great Northern Railway Buildings: 7.8 mi
- Glacier Highline: 19.7 mi
- Apgar Picnic Area: 11.6 mi
- Great Northern Flats: 14.0 mi
- North American Wildlife Museum: 19.6 mi
- Museum Of Wildlife: 22.2 mi
- Silver Dollar Beach: 15.5 mi
- Coram Experimental Forest: 20.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.1 miles of Mount Vaught. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Jackson | SE 129° | 3,064 m | 8.9 mi |
| Mount Siyeh | ENE 72° | 3,052 m | 10.7 mi |
| Cracker Benchmark | ENE 72° | 2,992 m | 11.3 mi |
| Going-to-the-Sun Mountain | E 86° | 2,939 m | 10.9 mi |
| Vulture Peak | NNW 328° | 2,937 m | 12.8 mi |
| Ipasha Peak | NNE 19° | 2,913 m | 12.5 mi |
| Mount Gould | ENE 59° | 2,911 m | 8.4 mi |
| Blackfoot Mountain | SE 126° | 2,909 m | 11.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:39 | 19:07 | 19:48 |
| June solstice | 05:33 | 20:53 | 21:43 |
| September equinox | 07:23 | 18:54 | 19:35 |
| December solstice | 08:26 | 15:47 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 27 | 34 | 42 | 52 | 58 | 65 | 64 | 54 | 42 | 32 | 25 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 2.2 | 2.6 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 3.8 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.2 | 3.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — W Glacier, 14 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Glacier National Park. Quietest months by visitation: Feb and Jan; busiest: Jul.
NPS visitation statistics, monthly averages 2021–2025 (2020 excluded).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357931928
Day trips start here
- Glacier National Park · 4 mi
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