Mount Mellenthin is a 12,645-foot (3,854 meter) elevation

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located in San Juan County of

Utah Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...

, United States. Mount Mellenthin is the second-highest peak of the

La Sal Mountains The La Sal Mountains or La Sal Range is a mountain range located in Grand and San Juan counties in the U.S. state of Utah, along the border with Colorado. The range rises above and southeast of Moab and north of the town of La Sal. This range i ...

, and second-highest in the county. It is situated in a dry, rugged, sparsely settled region, and set on land administered by Manti-La Sal National Forest. Precipitation runoff from this mountain drains into tributaries of the

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. The nearest town is

Moab Moab () was an ancient Levant, Levantine kingdom whose territory is today located in southern Jordan. The land is mountainous and lies alongside much of the eastern shore of the Dead Sea. The existence of the Kingdom of Moab is attested to by ...

, to the northwest, and the nearest higher neighbor is

Mount Peale Mount Peale is the highest point in the La Sal Range, La Sal Mountains of San Juan County, Utah, San Juan County, in the southeastern part of Utah, United States. It is also the highest point in Utah outside the Uinta Mountains. It is located ab ...

, to the south. The mountain's name honors Rudolf E. Mellenthin (1884–1918), forest ranger of La Sal National Forest, who was shot to death near this peak on August 23, 1918, while attempting to apprehend two draft evaders. This geographical feature's toponym was officially adopted in 1932 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

Climate

Spring and fall are the most favorable seasons to visit Mount Mellenthin. According to the

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system, it is located in a

Cold semi-arid climate Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere. In common usage, cold is often a subjective perception. A lower bound to temperature is absolute zero, defined as 0.00K on the Kelvin scale, an absolute thermodynamic ...

zone, which is defined by the coldest month having an average mean temperature below 32 °F (0 °C), and at least 50% of the total annual precipitation being received during the spring and summer. This desert climate receives less than of annual rainfall, and snowfall is generally light during the winter.

Gallery

File:Mount Mellenthin.jpg, Southwest aspect viewed from Mt. Tuk File:Mount Mellenthin, east aspect.jpg, East aspect File:Mount Mellenthin from Arches National Park.jpg, From Arches National Park File:Petrified Dunes and La Sal Mountains.jpg, Mount Mellenthin (left),

Mount Tukuhnikivatz Mount Tukuhnikivatz is a 12,482-foot (3,805 meter) elevation summit located in San Juan County of Utah, United States. Mount Tukuhnikivatz is the third-highest peak of the La Sal Mountains, and is the premier ski mountaineering destination in t ...

(right) File:Mount Mellenthin, La Sal Mountains. Utah.jpg, West aspect

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External links

* Weather forecast
Mount Mellenthin
* Rudolf Emil Mellenthin
Utahsfallen.org

Mellenthin Mellenthin is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Points of interest * Usedoms Botanischer Garten Mellenthin, a botanical garden A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botan ...

Climate

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