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At 2,464 ft (751 m) Mount Scott is the second highest mountain within the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge boundary. Mount Pinchot in the Special Use Area [ a ] is 12 feet (4 m) taller. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] A paved road leads to the summit of Mount Scott, offering views of the granite promontories to the west, the wind farm on the Slick Hills ...
Mount Pinchot is located within the Wildlife Refuge's Special Use Area and is closed to the public. Special wildlife viewing tours are offered by the Refuge which take participants very near the base of the mountain. The highest peak in the Wichita Mountains (including areas outside the Refuge) is Haley Peak, at 2,481 ft (756 m). [6]
Mount Scott (Comanche: Pisaroya, "Big Mountain") [4] is a prominent mountain just to the northwest of Lawton, Oklahoma rising to a height of 2,464 feet (751 m) [5] and is located in the Wichita Mountains near Fort Sill Military Reservation and lies in the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge (WMWR).
Refuge Manager Amber Zimmerman said there have not been any impacts to public use facilities, the visitor center or the parallel forest.
The first alpine club, the Alpine Club, based in the United Kingdom, was founded in London in 1857 as a gentlemen's club.It was once described as: "a club of English gentlemen devoted to mountaineering, first of all in the Alps, members of which have successfully addressed themselves to attempts of the kind on loftier mountains" (Nuttall Encyclopaedia, 1907).
To ensure the area was preserved, it was purchased in 2001 by The Access Fund and the Wichita Mountains Climbers Coalition (WMCC), then donated to the State of Oklahoma. In 2002 the area was designated Quartz Mountain Nature Park. [6] [7] There is no fee charged to climb the mountain. Activities at Baldy Point are only permitted during the daytime.
Appalachian Mountain Club; Armenian Mountaineering and Hiking Federation; Asian Trekking; Austrian Alpine Club; B. British Columbia Mountaineering Club;
The Wichita Forest Reserve was established by the United States General Land Office in Oklahoma on July 4, 1901, with 57,120 acres (231.2 km 2).After the transfer of federal forests to the U.S. Forest Service in 1905, it became a National Forest on March 4, 1907, as Wichita National Forest.