Hoodoo Peak (Wyoming)

Hoodoo Peak
Hoodoo Peak
	South aspect, circa 1964
Highest point
Elevation	10,571 ft (3,222 m)
Prominence	821 ft (250 m)
Parent peak	Peak 10660
Isolation	2.80 mi (4.51 km)
Coordinates	44°44′04″N109°52′01″W / 44.7345801°N 109.8668644°W
Naming
Etymology	hoodoo
Geography
	Hoodoo Peak Location in Wyoming Hoodoo Peak Hoodoo Peak (the United States)
Location	Yellowstone National Park ; Park County, Wyoming, U.S.
Parent range	Absaroka Range ; Rocky Mountains
Topo map	USGS Stinkingwater Peak
Geology
Type of rock	volcanic breccia

Last updated July 04, 2023

Hoodoo Peak is a 10,571-foot-elevation (3,222-meter) mountain summit located in Park County, Wyoming, United States.^[1]

Description

This remote peak is situated along the common border shared by Yellowstone National Park and North Absaroka Wilderness, and it ranks as the 24th-highest peak in the park.^[3] It is part of the Absaroka Range which is a subset of Rocky Mountains. Topographic relief is significant as the south aspect rises over 2,000 feet (610 meters) above Hoodoo Basin in 1.5 mile, and the east aspect rises 1,800 feet (550 meters) above Hoodoo Creek in one mile. From the summit one can see 30 miles north to Granite Peak which is the highest point in Montana, and as far south as the Tetons, 80 miles distant.^[4]

History

Prospectors named Hoodoo Basin, below the southern slopes of the peak, which refers to geologic formations called hoodoos found there. When Philetus Norris, the second superintendent of Yellowstone Park, climbed the peak in 1880, he took note of the hoodoos. In his report he used an aneroid barometer to measure the summit elevation to be 10,700 feet and wrote: "Here, extending from 500 to 1,500 below the summit, the frosts and storms of untold ages in an Alpine climate have worn about a dozen labyrinths of countless deep, narrow, tortuous channels amid the long, slender, tottering pillars, shafts, and spires of the conglomerate breccia and other remaining volcanic rocks. Here the sharp-cornered fragments of rocks of nearly every size, form, formation, and shade of coloring, by a peculiar volcanic cement attached sidewise, endwise, and upon the tops, sides, and, apparently, unsupported, upon each other, represent every form, garb, and posture of gigantic human beings, as well as of birds, beasts, and reptiles. In fact, nearly every form, animate or inanimate, real or chimerical, ever actually seen or conjured by the imagination, may here be observed."^[5]^[6] The mountain has also been known as Goblin Peak, but the mountain's hoodoo name was officially adopted in 1895 by the United States Board on Geographic Names.^[1]

Climate

According to the Köppen climate classification system, Hoodoo Peak is located in an alpine subarctic climate zone with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool to mild summers.^[7] Winter temperatures can drop below −10 °F with wind chill factors below −30 °F. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains west into headwaters of the Lamar River, and east into tributaries of the Clarks Fork Yellowstone River.

Gallery

Hoodoo Peak framed by features in Hoodoo Basin
Hoodoos in Hoodoo Basin
Hoodoo in Hoodoo Basin
Hoodoo Basin
Hoodoo Basin
Hoodoo Peak in 1966
Hoodoo in Hoodoo Basin

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References

1 2 3 4 "Hoodoo Peak". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 2021-11-23.
1 2 3 "Hoodoo Peak - 10,561' WY". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
↑ Hoodoo Peak, Peakvisor.com
↑ Early Vernon Wilcox, The Land of Sunshine Volume 15, 1901, F.A. Pattee & Company, page 217.
↑ Richard A. Bartlett, Nature's Yellowstone, 1989, University of Arizona Press, ISBN 9780816511099, page 31.
↑ P. W. Norris, Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park, 1880, page 8.
↑ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11 (5): 1633. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. ISSN 1027-5606. S2CID 9654551.

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[gnis-1] 1 2 3 4 "Hoodoo Peak". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 2021-11-23.

[listsofjohn-2] 1 2 3 "Hoodoo Peak - 10,561' WY". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved 2021-11-23.

[3] Hoodoo Peak, Peakvisor.com

[4] Early Vernon Wilcox, The Land of Sunshine Volume 15, 1901, F.A. Pattee & Company, page 217.

[5] Richard A. Bartlett, Nature's Yellowstone, 1989, University of Arizona Press, ISBN 9780816511099, page 31.

[6] P. W. Norris, Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park, 1880, page 8.

[Peel-7] Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11 (5): 1633. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. ISSN 1027-5606. S2CID 9654551.

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