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The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The mountains, part of the Pacific Coast Ranges, are not especially high – Mount Olympus is the highest summit at 7,980 ft (2,432 m); however, the eastern slopes rise precipitously out of Puget Sound from sea level, and the western slopes are separated from the Pacific Ocean by ...
Located on the Olympic Peninsula, it is also a central feature of Olympic National Park. Mount Olympus is the highest summit of the Olympic Mountains; however, peaks such as Mount Constance and The Brothers, on the eastern margin of the range, are better known, being visible from the Seattle metropolitan area.
Warrior Peak is a 7,320+ ft (2,230+ m) double summit mountain located in Olympic National Park and Jefferson County of Washington state. Warrior is the 11th-highest peak in the Olympic Mountains. [1] The southeast summit is the slightly higher of the two summits, the northwest peak is estimated at 7,285 feet elevation. [3]
The parent is the peak whose territory peak A resides in. The encirclement parent is found by tracing the contour below peak A's key col and picking the highest mountain in that region. This is easier to determine than the prominence parent; however, it tends to give non-intuitive results for peaks with very low cols such as Jabal Shams which ...
The day before its 1980 eruption, Mount St. Helens was the fifth highest major summit of Washington. Today, Mount St. Helens is the 35th highest major summit of the state. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of the U.S. State of Washington. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ...
At 7,788 feet (2,374 m) high Mount Deception is the second highest peak of the Olympic Mountains, after Mount Olympus. [4] It is the highest peak of the eastern Olympics. [5] Mount Deception's prominence is 4,108 feet (1,252 m), making it the 17th most prominent peak in Washington. [6]
Stevens Pass, located in the Cascade Range. The U.S. state of Washington, located in the Pacific Northwest, has several major mountain ranges that are traversed various passes. The state is divided by the Cascade Range, which have the highest passes, and is also home to the Olympic Mountains, Selkirk Mountains, and Blue Mountains.
Mount Anderson is a 7,330-foot-high (2,234 m) peak in the Olympic Mountains of the Pacific Northwest.Rising in the center of Olympic National Park in Washington state, it is the second highest peak on the Anderson Massif, after West Peak. [3]