Hedges Peak, elevation , is a mountain peak in the Washburn Range in

Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in the western United States, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress with the Yellowst ...

, in the U.S. state of

Wyoming Wyoming () is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to the s ...

. The peak was named in 1895 by geologist

Arnold Hague Arnold Hague (December 3, 1840 in Boston, Massachusetts – May 14, 1917 in Washington, D.C.) was a United States geologist who did many geological surveys in the U.S., of which the best known was that for Yellowstone National Park. He also had as ...

to honor Cornelius Hedges (1837–1907), a member of the

Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition The Washburn Expedition of 1870 explored the region of northwestern Wyoming that two years later became Yellowstone National Park. Led by Henry D. Washburn and Nathaniel P. Langford, and with a U.S. Army escort headed by Lt. Gustavus C. Doane, ...

of 1871 and a prominent Montana lawyer. Hedges' accounts of the expedition in the ''Helena Daily Herald'' newspaper contributed to the campaign to create Yellowstone National Park. Prior to 1895 the peak had been named ''Surprise Peak'' by geologist J.P. Iddings in 1883. CorneliusHedges

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{{Wyoming Mountains of Wyoming Mountains of Yellowstone National Park Mountains of Park County, Wyoming

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