Cloud Peak
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Cloud Peak is the highest peak within the Bighorn Mountains in the U.S. state of Wyoming.
Location
It rises to an elevation of Script error: No such module "convert".[1] and provides onlookers with dramatic views and vistas. The mountain can be climbed most easily from the western side, accessed by either the Battle Park or West Tensleep trail-heads and is roughly 24 miles round-trip from both. The peak is located in the 189,000 acre (765 km2) Cloud Peak Wilderness within Bighorn National Forest. The northeast slope of Cloud Peak is a deep cirque which harbors Cloud Peak Glacier, the last active glacier in the Bighorn Mountains.
Cloud Peak is on the border between Johnson County and Big Horn County in Wyoming and is the high point of both counties.[2] As the high point of an isolated range, Cloud Peak has the greatest topographic prominence in the state, Script error: No such module "convert"., one foot more than the state's highest mountain, Script error: No such module "convert". Gannett Peak,[3] and fifteenth greatest in the contiguous United States.[4]
Climate
Cloud Peak has an Alpine climate (ET). Script error: No such module "weather box".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Cloud Peak Reservoir is a mountain lake below Cloud Peak on its eastern slopes. The weather station there has a subalpine climate (Köppen Dfc). Script error: No such module "weather box".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
See also
- 4000 meter peaks of North America
- Central Rocky Mountains
- Mountain peaks of North America
- Mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountains
- Mountain peaks of the United States
- List of Ultras of North America
- List of Ultras of the United States
References
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