Penrose Peak (Wyoming)

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Penrose Peak
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Penrose Peak
Highest point
Elevation 12,461 ft (3,798 m) [1]
Prominence 400 ft (120 m) [1]
Coordinates 44°24′54″N108°08′40″W / 44.41500°N 108.14444°W / 44.41500; -108.14444 [2]
Geography
Location Johnson County, Wyoming, U.S.
Parent range Bighorn Mountains
Topo map USGS Cloud 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. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Penrose Peak 2013-01-24". ListsOfJohn.com.
  2. ↑ "Penrose Peak". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved January 8, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Penrose Peak". Bivouac.com. Retrieved January 1, 2011.


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