The Caribou Range (also known as the Caribou Mountains) is a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in [{Bonneville County, Idaho|Bonneville]], Bingham, and Caribou counties in Idaho, United States, that extends into Lincoln County, Wyoming. [1]
The mountains are in the Caribou National Forest in Bonneville and Caribou counties, near the Wyoming border.
Named for Cariboo Fairchild, a prospector who had taken part in the gold rush in the Cariboo region of British Columbia in 1860. Fairchild discovered gold in this area of present-day eastern Idaho two years later. [2]
The highest point of the range is 9,803-foot Caribou Mountain. [3]
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