Mount Haynes el. is a prominent peak adjacent to the
Madison River
The Madison River is a headwater tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 183 miles (295 km) long, in Wyoming and Montana. Its confluence with the Jefferson and Gallatin rivers near Three Forks, Montana forms the Missouri River.
Th ...
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 ...
. The peak was named by then Yellowstone superintendent
Horace Albright
Horace Marden Albright (January 6, 1890 – March 28, 1987) was an American conservationist.
Horace Albright was born in 1890 in Bishop, California, the son of George Albright, a miner. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley ...
to honor
Frank Jay Haynes
Frank Jay Haynes (October 28, 1853 – March 10, 1921), known as F. Jay or the ''Professor'' to almost all who knew him, was a professional photographer, publisher, and entrepreneur from Minnesota who played a major role in documenting through pho ...
(1853–1921), the first official photographer of the park.
Prior to being named Mount Haynes, the peak was unofficially called ''Mount Burley'' for D. E. Burley of the
Union Pacific Railroad
The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Paci ...
.
Today there is an interpretive overlook along the Madison River just opposite the peak.
File:FrankJHaynesWinterExpeditionYNP1887.jpg, Mount Haynes namesake, Frank Jay Haynes
Frank Jay Haynes (October 28, 1853 – March 10, 1921), known as F. Jay or the ''Professor'' to almost all who knew him, was a professional photographer, publisher, and entrepreneur from Minnesota who played a major role in documenting through pho ...
File:NationalParkMeadowYNP2007.jpg, National Park Meadow with Mount Haynes on the horizon
See also
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Mountains and mountain ranges of Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park, located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, though the park also extends into Montana and Idaho and its Mountains and Mountain Ranges are part of the Rocky Mountains. There are at least 70 named mountain peaks o ...
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