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Gannett Peak

Gannett Peak is the highest peak in the U.S. state

U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 state of the United States that share sovereignty with the federal government of the United States . Because of this shared sovereignty, an United States is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of Domicile ....
of Wyoming

Wyoming

The State of Wyoming is a sparsely populated U.S. state in the Northwestern United States of the United States. The majority of the state is dominated by the mountain ranges and rangelands of the Rocky Mountains, while the easternmost section of the state is a high altitude prairie region known as the High Plains ....
and straddles the boundary between Fremont

Fremont County, Wyoming

Fremont County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wyoming. It was named in honor of John C. Fr?mont, general, explorer, and politician. As of 2000, the population was 35,804....
and Sublette

Sublette County, Wyoming

Sublette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wyoming. It is a sparsely populated rural county in western Wyoming, along the Green River ....
Counties along the Continental Divide

Continental Divide

The Continental Divide of the Americas, or merely the Continental Divide or Great Divide, is the name given to the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the drainage basin that drain into the Pacific Ocean from, 1) those river systems which drain into the Atlantic Ocean , and 2)...
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Geographically, Gannett Peak is the apex of the entire Central Rockies; the largely continuous group of the chain occupying the states of Wyoming

Wyoming

Idaho

The State of Idaho is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. The state's largest city and Capital is Boise, Idaho....
and Montana

Montana

Montana is a U.S. state in the Western United States. The western third of the state contains numerous mountain ranges; other 'island' ranges are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains....
. Named in 1906 for American geographer Henry Gannett

Henry Gannett

Henry Gannett, M.E.; LL.D. LifeHe was born in Bath, Maine, graduated with a B.S. at Harvard University in 1869 and at the Hooper Mining School in 1870 also at Harvard....
, the peak is also the highpoint of the Wind River Range

Wind River Range

The Wind River Range , is a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in western Wyoming in the United States. The range runs roughly NW-SE for approximately 100 miles ....
. The mountain slopes are located in both Bridger-Teton National Forest

Bridger-Teton National Forest

Bridger-Teton National Forest is located in western Wyoming, United States. The forest consists of 3.4 million acres , making it the second largest National Forest outside of Alaska....
and Shoshone National Forest

Shoshone National Forest

Shoshone National Forest is the first Federal government of the United States protected United States National Forest in the United States and covers nearly 2.5 million acres in the U.S....
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Gannett Peak is the highest peak in the U.S. state

U.S. state

Wyoming

Fremont County, Wyoming

Sublette County, Wyoming

Sublette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wyoming. It is a sparsely populated rural county in western Wyoming, along the Green River ....
Counties along the Continental Divide

Continental Divide

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Geographically, Gannett Peak is the apex of the entire Central Rockies; the largely continuous group of the chain occupying the states of Wyoming

Wyoming

Idaho

The State of Idaho is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. The state's largest city and Capital is Boise, Idaho....
and Montana

Montana

Henry Gannett

Wind River Range

Bridger-Teton National Forest

Shoshone National Forest

Shoshone National Forest is the first Federal government of the United States protected United States National Forest in the United States and covers nearly 2.5 million acres in the U.S....
. Gannett is the highest peak within what is better known as the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Greater Yellowstone is the last remaining large, nearly intact ecosystem in the northern temperate zone of the Earth and is partly located in Yellowstone National Park....
. The Gannett Glacier

Gannett Glacier

Gannett Glacier is the largest glacier in the Rocky Mountains within the United States. The glacier is located on the east and north slopes of Gannett Peak, the highest mountain in Wyoming on the east side of the Continental Divide in the Wind River Range....
, which is likely the largest single glacier

Glacier

A glacier is a large, slow-moving mass of ice, formed from compacted layers of snow, that slowly deforms and flows in response to gravity and high pressure....
in the Rocky Mountains

Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 4,800 kilometre from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in Canada, to New Mexico, in the United States....
, flows down from the northern slopes of the mountain. Minor Glacier

Minor Glacier

Minor Glacier is located in Bridger-Teton National Forest, in the U.S. state of Wyoming on the west side of the Continental Divide in the northern Wind River Range....
is situated in the western cirque of the peak while Dinwoody

Dinwoody Glacier

Dinwoody Glacier is located in Shoshone National Forest, in the U.S. state of Wyoming on the east side of the Continental Divide in the Wind River Range....
and Gooseneck Glacier

Gooseneck Glacier

Gooseneck Glacier is located in the Fitzpatrick Wilderness, Shoshone National Forest, in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The glacier is east of the Continental Divide in the northern Wind River Range and on the southeast flank of Gannett Peak, the tallest mountain in Wyoming....
s can be found on the southeast side of the mountain.

Gannett Peak is commonly climbed on a four to six day round-trip and is considered amongst mountaineers

Mountaineering

Mountaineering is the sport, hobby or profession of walking, hiking, trekking and climbing up mountains. It is also sometimes known as alpinism, particularly in Europe....
as second only to Alaska

Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
's Mount McKinley

Mount McKinley

Mount McKinley or Denali in Alaska is the Extremes on Earth mountain peak in North America, at a height of approximately . It is the centerpiece of Denali National Park and Preserve....
in difficulty of state high points. However, many climbers rank Gannett Peak behind both Mount McKinley and Montana's Granite Peak

Granite Peak (Montana)

Granite Peak, at an elevation of 12,799 feet above sea level, is the highest point in the state of Montana, United States and is the 10th highest state high point in the nation....
, which, in 1923, was the last state high point climbed.

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