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Hike · Mount Washburn trailhead

Mount Washburn

Distance
4.5 mi
Vertical
1,490 ft
Summit
10,128 ft
Difficulty
Strenuous

Mount Washburn stands at 10,219 feet in Yellowstone's Washburn Range, a small chain that sits entirely within the park's boundary. It is what remains of a volcano that collapsed during one of Yellowstone's caldera-forming eruptions roughly 640,000 years ago — the mountain's…

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About Mount Washburn

Mount Washburn, elevation 10,219 feet (3,115 m), is a prominent mountain peak in the Washburn Range in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States. The peak was named in 1870 to honor Henry D. Washburn, leader of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition. The Washburn Range is one of two mountains ranges completely within the boundaries of Yellowstone.

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Mount Washburn under spring snow, the collapsed cone of an ancient volcano that helped form the Yellowstone caldera roughly 640,000 years ago.
Diane Renkin (NPS) · Public domain
Washburn rising above a winter inversion layer over Hayden Valley, with the fire lookout silhouetted on the summit.
Addy Falgoust (NPS) · Public domain
Washburn seen from Druid Peak in the Lamar Valley, the open south ridge that hikers ascend from Dunraven Pass.
Jacob W. Frank (NPS) · Public domain
The summit trail under early fall snow, the scree slope on the right marking the collapsed eastern flank of the old volcanic edifice.
Yellowstone NPS · Public domain

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