Kingman Pass el. is a mountain pass between Terrance Mountain and
Bunsen Peak on the
Grand Loop Road (
U.S. Route 89
U.S. Route 89 (US 89) is a north–south United States Numbered Highway with two sections, and one former section. The southern section runs for from Flagstaff, Arizona, to the southern entrance of Yellowstone National Park. The northern secti ...
), just south of Mammoth Hot Springs 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
Wyoming () is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is border ...
. The pass is named for Lieutenant
Dan Christie Kingman of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Kingman rebuilt this difficult portion of the Grand Loop Road in the area known as ''The Golden Gate'' in 1883.
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Landforms of Yellowstone National Park
Mountain passes of Wyoming
Landforms of Park County, Wyoming
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