Vogelsang Peak is a peak in the

Cathedral Range The Cathedral Range is a mountain range immediately to the south of Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park. The range is an offshoot of the Sierra Nevada. The range is named after Cathedral Peak, which resembles a cathedral spire. Geograp ...

Yosemite National Park Yosemite National Park ( ) is an American national park in California, surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers an ar ...

, located in northeastern

Mariposa County, California Mariposa County () is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the population was 17,131. The county seat is Mariposa. It is located in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, north of Fresno, east of ...

. Though

Mount Florence Mount Florence is a mountain, in the Tuolumne Meadows region of Yosemite National Park. Its easiest route is a scramble. Mount Florence is the tenth highest mountain in Yosemite. Deep in the Yosemite backcountry, Mount Florence is not often cl ...

is higher, at , at the summit rises higher than most of the surrounding peaks, and offers sweeping panoramic views in every direction.

Naming

The peak was named by Col. H.C. Benson in 1907. There is dispute over whether the peak was named for Charles A Vogelsang, an executive officer of California's State Fish and Game Commission from 1896–1901, or his brother Alexander Theodore Vogelsang, who served as president of the California State Board of Fish and Game from 1901-1910. The German word "vogelsang" can be translated as "a meadow in which birds sing".

Topography

Vogelsang Peak's southeastern side is made up of a relatively uniform arc of steep rock. Its northwestern side is a series of

cirque A (; from the Latin word ') is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic , meaning a pot or cauldron) and (; ). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform ...

s and sheer cliffs. Well known climbing routes include the Nightingale

Arête An arête ( ) is a narrow ridge of rock which separates two valleys. It is typically formed when two glaciers erode parallel U-shaped valleys. Arêtes can also form when two glacial cirques erode headwards towards one another, although frequen ...

( II 5.9) and the West Face (IV 5.10 A2).

Vogelsang Pass Vogelsang Pass is a mountain pass in the Cathedral Range of Yosemite National Park, at . It lies between the cirque containing Vogelsang Lake and the valley with Lewis Creek. The pass also lies on the ridge between Fletcher Peak () and Vogelsan ...

, Vogelsang Lake and the Vogelsang High Sierra Camp are located northeast of the summit.

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* {{cite summitpost , id=151700 , name=Vogelsang Peak Mountains of Yosemite National Park Mountains of Mariposa County, California Mountains of Northern California