Gavilan Peak is northwest of
Daisy Mountain, north of
Anthem, Arizona and southeast of
New River, Arizona. Considering its steepness, it is climbed much less frequently than Daisy Mountain. It was named in the 1880s, when the
U.S. Cavalry and the
Apaches
The Apache ( ) are several Southern Athabaskan language-speaking peoples of the Southwestern United States, Southwest, the Southern Plains and Northern Mexico. They are linguistically related to the Navajo. They migrated from the Athabascan ho ...
fought a battle in the area. The name means 'sparrow hawk' in Spanish and 'hawk' in Apache.
References
{{Mountains of Arizona
Landforms of Maricopa County, Arizona
Mountains of Arizona
Mountains of Maricopa County, Arizona