Penrose Peak

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.

Places of Interest

Highlights include The Innominate and Mount Woolsey.

The Innominate

Peak

Photo: Ttharp, Public domain.

The Innominate is a mountain peak located in the Bighorn Mountains in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Situated along a knife-like ridge known as an arête, the summit is located in the Cloud Peak Wilderness of Bighorn National Forest.

Mount Woolsey

Peak

Photo: Ttharp, Public domain.

Mount Woolsey is located in the Bighorn Mountains in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The peak is the third highest in the range after Cloud Peak, which is only 1.3 miles to the south, and the summit is located in the Cloud Peak Wilderness of Bighorn National Forest. Black Tooth Mountain, the second highest mountain in the Bighorns, is an adjacent summit only.20 mi to the northwest.

Black Tooth Mountain

Peak

Photo: Ttharp, Public domain.

Black Tooth Mountain is located in the Bighorn Mountains in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The peak is the second highest in the range after Cloud Peak, which is only 1.5 miles to the south, and the summit is located in the Cloud Peak Wilderness of Bighorn National Forest.

Penrose Peak

Type: Peak with an elevation of 12,405 feet
Description: mountain in Wyoming, United States of America
Categories: mountain and landform
Location: Johnson County, Wyoming, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

44.41533° or 44° 24′ 55″ north

Longitude

-107.14456° or 107° 8′ 40″ west

Elevation

12,405 feet (3,781 metres)

Open location code

85PJCV84+45

OpenStreetMap ID

node 356503007

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

5834839

Wikidata ID

Q7164645

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Urdu—“Penrose Peak” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Penrose Peak (bukid sa Estados Unidos, Wyoming)”
Cebuano: “Penrose Peak”
Dutch: “Penrose Peak”
Egyptian Arabic: “جبل پينروس پياك (امريكا)”
Egyptian Arabic: “جبل پينروس پياك”
German: “Penrose Peak (Wyoming)”
German: “Penrose Peak”
Ladin: “Penrose Peak”
Urdu: “پینروز پیک”

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