Hallelujah Peak (), also known as Peak 12590, is located in the
Bighorn Mountains
The Bighorn Mountains ( cro, Basawaxaawúua, lit=our mountains or cro, Iisaxpúatahchee Isawaxaawúua, label=none, lit=bighorn sheep's mountains) are a mountain range in northern Wyoming and southern Montana in the United States, forming a ...
in the
U.S. state
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of
Wyoming
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.
The peak is the fifth-highest in the range and it is in the
Cloud Peak Wilderness
The Cloud Peak Wilderness is located in north central Wyoming in the United States. Entirely within Bighorn National Forest, the wilderness was established in 1984 in an effort to preserve the wildest section of the Bighorn Mountains. The wildernes ...
of
Bighorn National Forest
The Bighorn National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in northern Wyoming, United States and consists of over 1.1 million acres (4,500 km2). Created as a US Forest Reserve in 1897, it is one of the oldest government-protected fores ...
.
Hallelujah Peak is northeast of
Black Tooth Mountain
Black Tooth Mountain () is located in the Bighorn Mountains in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The peak is the second highest in the range after Cloud Peak, which is only to the south, and the summit is located in the Cloud Peak Wilderness of Bigho ...
and connected to that peak by a knife-like ridge known as an
arête
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.
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References
Mountains of Johnson County, Wyoming
Mountains of Wyoming
Bighorn National Forest
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