The Caribou Range (also known as the Caribou Mountains) is a mountain range in the

Rocky Mountains The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch in great-circle distance, straight-line distance from the northernmost part of Western Can ...

in Bonneville, Bingham, and

Caribou The reindeer or caribou (''Rangifer tarandus'') is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. It is the only represe ...

counties in

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, United States, that extends into Lincoln County,

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. The mountains are in the

Caribou National Forest The reindeer or caribou (''Rangifer tarandus'') is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. It is the only represen ...

in Bonneville and Caribou counties, near the Wyoming border. Named for Cariboo Fairchild, a prospector who had taken part in the gold rush in the Cariboo region of

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in 1860. Fairchild discovered

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in this area of present-day eastern Idaho two years later.Idaho.gov - Caribou County
accessed 2009-05-29 The highest point of the range is 9,803-foot Caribou Mountain.

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Mountain ranges of Idaho Mountain ranges of Wyoming Landforms of Bonneville County, Idaho Landforms of Bingham County, Idaho Landforms of Caribou County, Idaho Landforms of Lincoln County, Wyoming {{CaribouCountyID-geo-stub

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