Penrose Peak
Penrose Peak rises to 3,781 m in Wyoming. Cloud Peak stands 4,017 m to the south-southwest, 2.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Shipsprow Buttress, a peak 0.1 miles away. Cloud Peak Skyway passes 12 miles off.
The story
Penrose Peak is a mountain in the Bighorn Mountains of the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming, United States. Like Mount Penrose in British Columbia, Canada, it was named for Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania, who was an avid outdoorsman and went on hunting expeditions in this area.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q7164645, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3781 m
How to reach it
- 12.2 mi off the Cloud Peak Skyway
- 20.3 mi off the Red Gulch/Alkali National Back Country Byway
- 22.0 mi off the Bighorn Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Loaf Mountain Overlook Observation Site · 15 mi
- Powder River Pass information sign · 19 mi
- Scenic Viewpoint · 24 mi
- Scenic Viewpoint · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Shipsprow Buttress: 0.1 mi
- Sawtooth Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Hallelujah: 1.3 mi
- Glory Point: 1.8 mi
- Mount Woolsey: 1.9 mi
- Highland Park: 3.3 mi
- Medicine Park: 5.2 mi
- Medicine Cabin Park: 5.3 mi
- Triangle Park: 7.4 mi
- Teepee Pole Flats: 8.1 mi
- Spear Lake Cliff: 1.9 mi
- Ed Point: 12.7 mi
- Weston Point: 12.8 mi
- Spanish Point: 15.5 mi
- Cobra: 18.4 mi
- Bard Spring: 11.7 mi
- Cow Camp Spring: 12.2 mi
- East Hunter Mesa Spring: 12.2 mi
- Hospital Hill Springs: 13.7 mi
- Hospital Hill Springs: 13.8 mi
- The Brinton Museum: 17.2 mi
- The Brinton Museum: 17.2 mi
- Fort Phil Kearny Visitor Center: 17.6 mi
- Bozeman Trail Museum: 19.8 mi
- Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum: 22.4 mi
- North Fork Picnic Area: 11.9 mi
- Twin Lakes Picnic Area: 15.6 mi
- Granite Creek Picnic Area: 22.8 mi
- Wagon Box Battle Monument: 15.7 mi
- Fort Phil Kearny: 17.7 mi
- Fetterman Monument: 18.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.0 miles of Penrose Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud Peak | SSW 212° | 4,017 m | 2.7 mi |
| Merlon | SSW 208° | 3,975 m | 2.7 mi |
| Mount Woolsey | WSW 238° | 3,942 m | 1.9 mi |
| Kramer Peak | SW 216° | 3,918 m | 2.1 mi |
| Bomber South Peak | S 184° | 3,901 m | 3.5 mi |
| Sawtooth Mountain | SSW 203° | 3,854 m | 0.8 mi |
| Innominate | SW 231° | 3,853 m | 1.9 mi |
| Hallelujah | WSW 250° | 3,837 m | 1.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:43 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 20:13 | 20:57 |
| September equinox | 06:56 | 18:30 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:42 | 15:44 | 16:33 |
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 | 27 | 26 | 33 | 41 | 49 | 58 | 67 | 65 | 56 | 44 | 34 | 26 |
| Precip in | 1.3 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 3.7 | 4.7 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 3.3 | 1.5 | 1.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Story, 16 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1592664 — Penrose Peak, Johnson County, Wyoming.
OpenStreetMap element node/356503007
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