Mount Grinnell is a peak located in the heart of
Glacier National Park in the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sove ...
of
Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columb ...
. Lying just east of the
Continental Divide in the
Many Glacier region of the park, the peak is flanked to the northwest by
Swiftcurrent Glacier and to the south by
Grinnell Glacier
Grinnell Glacier is in the heart of Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The glacier is named for George Bird Grinnell, an early American conservationist and explorer, who was also a strong advocate of ensuring the creation of Glac ...
.
Mount Grinnell is named after
George Bird Grinnell
George Bird Grinnell (September 20, 1849 – April 11, 1938) was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in 1870 and a Ph.D. in 1880. ...
.
From the
Many Glacier Hotel
Many Glacier Hotel is a historic hotel located on the east shore of Swiftcurrent Lake in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The building is designed as a series of chalets, up to four stories tall, and stretches for a substantia ...
on
Swiftcurrent Lake, the eastern arm of Mount Grinnell, known as
Grinnell Point, hides the main summit.
File:Grinnell-Redrock-s01.jpg, Redrock Lake with Mount Grinnell above Redrock Falls with Grinnell Point to the left.
File:GrinnellLakeMountGrinnell-s01.jpg, Mount Grinnell above Grinnell Lake
Grinnell Lake is located in Glacier National Park, in the U. S. state of Montana. Named after George Bird Grinnell, the lake has an opaque turquoise appearance from the rock flour (silt) which is transported to the lake from Grinnell Glacier. Gri ...
File:BullheadLake-s01.jpg, Bullhead Lake, looking towards Mount Grinnell
File:Mount Grinnell from iceberg lake trail.jpg, Mt. Grinnell from Iceberg Lake Trail
See also
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Mountains and mountain ranges of Glacier National Park (U.S.)
Mountains in Glacier National Park (U.S.) are part of the Rocky Mountains. There are at least 150 named mountain peaks over in Glacier in three mountain ranges--the Clark Range, Lewis Range, Livingston Range. Mount Cleveland at
is the high ...
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Mountains of Glacier National Park (U.S.)
Mountains of Glacier County, Montana
Lewis Range
Mountains of Montana
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