Mount Lyell
Mount Lyell is the highest point in Yosemite National Park, at 13,114 feet. It is located at the southeast end of the Cathedral Range, 1+1⁄4 miles northwest of Rodgers Peak.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hike395, Public domain.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 13,100 feet
- Description: mountain in California
- Also known as: “Mount Lyell, California” and “Mt. Lyell”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lyell Glacier and Mount Maclure.
Lyell Glacier
Glacier
Lyell Glacier is in the Sierra Nevada of California. The glacier was discovered by John Muir in 1871, and was the largest glacier in Yosemite National Park.
Mount Maclure
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Mount Maclure is the nearest neighbor to Mount Lyell, the highest point in Yosemite National Park. Mount Maclure is the fifth-highest mountain of Yosemite.
Maclure Glacier
Glacier
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Maclure Glacier is on Mount Maclure in the Sierra Nevada crest of Yosemite National Park in Tuolumne County, California, United States. The glacier is named after William Maclure.
Mount Lyell
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Madera County, San Joaquin Valley, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.73942° or 37° 44′ 22″ northLongitude
-119.27161° or 119° 16′ 18″ westElevation
13,100 feet (3,993 metres)Open location code
8592PPQH+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
node 358798681OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Western Panjabi—“Mount Lyell” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Lyell (bukid sa Estados Unidos)”
- Cebuano: “Mount Lyell”
- Chinese: “利埃尔峰”
- Chinese: “莱尔山”
- Chinese: “萊爾山”
- Czech: “Mount Lyell”
- Dutch: “Mount Lyell”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت ليل (امريكا)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت ليل”
- French: “mont Lyell”
- French: “Mont Lyell”
- German: “Mount Lyell (Kalifornien)”
- German: “Mount Lyell”
- Japanese: “ライエル山”
- Ladin: “Mount Lyell”
- Persian: “کوه لیل (کالیفرنیا)”
- Persian: “کوه لیل”
- Portuguese: “Monte Lyell”
- Russian: “Лайелл”
- Slovenian: “Mount Lyell”
- Spanish: “Monte Lyell”
- Swedish: “Mount Lyell, USA”
- Swedish: “Mount Lyell”
- Ukrainian: “Лаєлл”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹلہ لائل”
- “Mount Lyell”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Tuolumne Meadows and June Lake.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lyell Col and Lyell-Maclure Col.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Lyell”. Photo: Hike395, Public domain.