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The Bighorn Mountains (Crow: Basawaxaawúua, lit. 'our mountains' or Iisaxpúatahchee Isawaxaawúua, 'bighorn sheep's mountains' [1]) are a mountain range in northern Wyoming and southern Montana in the United States, forming a northwest-trending spur from the Rocky Mountains extending approximately 200 mi (320 km) northward on the Great Plains.
The Bighorn National Forest was established as the Big Horn National Forest on 22 February 1897, and encompasses 1,198,080 acres. On 1 July 1908 the name was changed to the Bighorn National Forest through an executive order. In September 1981 the national forest had 1,115,171 acres, with 1,107,670 of those acres being National Forest land. [7]
Bighorn Peak (12,324 feet (3,756 m)) is located in the Bighorn Mountains in the U.S. state of Wyoming. [3] The peak is the seventh highest in the range and it is in the Cloud Peak Wilderness of Bighorn National Forest. [4] Bighorn Peak is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Darton Peak.
Gannett Peak is the highest summit of the Wind River Range, the U.S. State of Wyoming, and the Central Rocky Mountains. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the U.S. State of Wyoming. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Mount Woolsey (12,982 feet or 3,957 metres) is located in the Bighorn Mountains in the U.S. state of Wyoming. [4] The peak is the third highest in the range after Cloud Peak, which is only 1.3 miles (2.1 km) to the south, and the summit is located in the Cloud Peak Wilderness of Bighorn National Forest. [1]
Mather Peaks (elevation range is 12,404 to 12,444 feet (3,781 to 3,793 m)) is located in the Bighorn Mountains in the U.S. state of Wyoming. [3] The peak is the sixth highest in the range and it is in the Cloud Peak Wilderness of Bighorn National Forest. [4]
Big Trails lies in the Big Horn Basin [2] on the northwest side of a mountain ridge. It is near the confluence of the eastern part of the Owl Creek Mountains and the southern part of the Bighorn Mountains. The southern Bighorns have a fault named Big Trails Fault [3] and there is some seismic activity in the area. [4]
Cloud Peak is on the border between Johnson County and Big Horn County in Wyoming and is the high point of both counties. [2] As the high point of an isolated range, Cloud Peak has the greatest topographic prominence in the state, 7,077 feet (2,157 m), one foot more than the state's highest mountain, 13,810 foot (4,210 m) Gannett Peak , [ 3 ...