Humphreys Peak

Infobox Mountain
Name = Humphreys Peak
Photo = Humphreys Peak KPW.jpg
Caption = Humphreys Peak
Elevation = Convert|12637|ft|m|0cite web| url =http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/| title =NGS Data Sheet FQ0624|publisher =U.S Geodetic Survey| accessmonthday = November 9 | accessyear = 2006]
Location = Arizona, USA
Range = San Francisco Peaks
Prominence = Convert|6040|ft|m|0
Parent peak = Mount Elbert cite web
url=http://www.peaklist.org/USlists/USP5000.html
title=AMERICA'S 57 - THE ULTRAS
work=Peaklist.org
accessdate=2008-09-28 ]
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latd= 35|latm= 20|lats= 40.6|latNS=N
longd= 111|longm= 40|longs= 40.6|longEW=W
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Topographic
USGS Humphreys Peak
First ascent =
Easiest route = Humphreys Trail (hike) cite web
url=http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coconino/recreation/peaks/humphreys-tr.shtml
title=Coconino National Forest - Humphreys Trail
accessdate=2008-09-28]
Listing = Ultra
U.S. state high point

Humphreys Peak is the highest point in the U.S. state of Arizona and is located within Kachina Peaks Wilderness in Coconino County, about Convert|11|mi|km|1 north of Flagstaff, Arizona. Humphreys Peak is the highest of a group of ancient volcanic peaks known as the San Francisco Peaks. The summit can be most easily reached by hiking the Convert|4.5|mi|km|1 long Humphreys Trail that begins at the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort in the Coconino National Forest. The last Convert|1|mi|km|1 of the trail traverses the only region of tundra in Arizona, at an elevation of more than Convert|11500|ft|m|0.

Humphreys Peak was named in about 1870 for General Andrew A. Humphreys, a U.S. Army officer who was a Union general during the American Civil War, and who later became Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. However, a General Land Office map from 1903 showed the name San Francisco Peak applied to this feature (apparently borrowed from San Francisco Mountain on which the peak stands). Thus the United States Board on Geographic Names approved the variant name in 1911. In 1933, the application of the names was rectified.gnis|30290]

ee also

*Mountain peaks of North America
*Mountain peaks of the United States

References

External links

* [http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/150241/humphreys-peak.html Humphreys Peak on summitpost.org]
* [http://www.sanfranciscopeaks.org Webcam] and Peaks links from SanFranciscoPeaks.org
* [http://www.rmrs.nau.edu/webcam/ Webcam] provided by Rocky Mountain Research Station, Forest Service Research since 1996.
* Computer generated summit panoramas [http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/panoramas/AME/Humphreys-N.gifNorth] * [http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/panoramas/AME/Humphreys-S.gifSouth] * [http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/panoramas.html index]
* [http://trails.gotakeahike.com/arizona/humphreys-peak-summit-san-fransisco-peaks/ Humphrey's Peak Summit Trail Information and Reviews]