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The northeast butte has an elevation of 5,212 feet (1,589 m), the southwest butte has an elevation of 5,020 feet (1,530 m) and the southeast butte has an elevation of 5,055 feet (1,541 m). A small lake, the Missouri Buttes Lake, lies 800 metres (2,600 ft) west of the buttes. [4]
The peaks are also a backdrop at historic Brooks Lake Lodge and Brooks Lake. The nearest town is Dubois, Wyoming, 22 miles to the southeast. The mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names, [4] and was in use in 1914 as "Pinnacle Butte" when published in an USGS bulletin. [7]
The Green River Lake System contained three ancient lakes, Fossil Lake, Lake Gosiute, and Lake Uinta. These lakes covered parts of southwest Wyoming, northeast Utah and northwestern Colorado. Fossil Butte is a remnant of the deposits from Fossil Lake. Fossil Lake was 40 to 50 miles (64 to 80 km) long from north to south and 20 miles (32 km) wide.
Devils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge) [8] is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (264 m) from ...
Pilot Butte is also a part of the Wild Horse tour, and several herds of wild horses have been spotted in the area. [9] The butte is the second highest point in the immediate region, the first being Aspen Mountain to the south. It is 7,949 feet (2,423 m) in elevation at its highest point.
Bivouac Peak (10,830 feet (3,300 m)) is in the northern Teton Range, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. The peak is located immediately to the west of Moran Bay on Jackson Lake , and rises more than 4,000 ft (1,200 m) in less than 0.5 mi (0.80 km) from the lakeshore.
Beartooth Butte (10,518 feet (3,206 m)) is in the Beartooth Mountains in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The peak is located in the Absaroka–Beartooth Wilderness of Shoshone National Forest. [1] [3] Rising more than 1,500 feet (460 m) to the northwest above Beartooth Lake, the butte is easily seen from the Beartooth Highway. Unlike the granitic ...
Mount Fitzpatrick (10,912 feet (3,326 m)) is located in the Salt River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. [3] The peak is the highest in the Salt River Range . [ 1 ]