Pelican Butte

Infobox Mountain
Name = Pelican Butte
Photo =
Caption =
Elevation = convert|8037|ft|m [ cite web
url = http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=NZ1044
title = NGS Data Sheet for PELICAN
publisher = U.S. National Geodetic Survey
accessdate = 2008-04-01 ]
Location = Oregon, USA
Range = Cascades
Prominence = convert|2196|ft|m [ cite web
url = http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2464
title = Pelican Butte, Oregon
publisher = Peakbagger.com
accessdate = 2008-04-01 ]
Coordinates = coord|42.5131895|-122.1458549|format=dms|region:US_type:mountain [GNIS|1147568accessdate|2008-04-01]
Topographic
USGS Pelican Butte
Type = Shield volcano
Volcanic_Arc/Belt = Cascade Volcanic Arc
Age =
Last eruption= less than 300,000 years ago cite web
title = Deschutes & Ochoco National Forests - Pelican Butte Volcano
publisher = US Forest Service
url = http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon/geology/info/volcanoes/pelicanbutte.shtml
accessdate = 2008-04-01 ]
First ascent = prehistoric Native Americans
Easiest route = dirt road

Pelican Butte is a steep-sided dormant shield volcano in the Cascade Range of southern Oregon. It is located convert|28|mi|km due south of Crater Lake and convert|12|mi|km|0 northeast of Mount McLoughlin, and rises over convert|3800|ft|m directly above the shore of Upper Klamath Lake. Ice Age glaciers carved a large cirque into the northeast flank of the mountain, forming a steep bowl which is popular in winter with backcountry skiers and snowmobilers. Several proposals have been made over the last few decades for ski area development on the northeast flanks, but none have achieved the regulatory approval from the United States Forest Service necessary to proceed with construction. If the ski area is ever built, its skiable vertical of over convert|3800|ft|m would be the largest in Oregon, exceeding the convert|3590|ft|m of Timberline Lodge ski area on Mount Hood.

A Forest Service fire lookout tower was built on the summit in 1935, and upgraded several times over the ensuing decades. It was replaced in 1986 with a modern convert|40|ft|m steel tower, which remains to this day and is festooned with a large array of microwave and radio antennas. A convert|5|ft|m long dirt road zigzags up the west flanks of the volcano to the summit.

References

* cite book
last = Harris
first = Stephen L.
title = Fire Mountains of the West: The Cascade and Mono Lake Volcanoes (3rd ed.)
publisher = Mountain Press Publishing Company
date = 2005
isbn = 0-87842-511-X
* cite book
last = Wood
first = Charles A.
coauthors= Jürgen Kienle, eds.
title = Volcanoes of North America
publisher = Cambridge University Press
date = 1990
isbn = 0-521-43811-X
* cite book
last = Kresek
first = Ray
title = Fire Lookouts of the Northwest (3rd ed.)
publisher = Historic Lookout Project
date = 1998
isbn = 0-87770-632-8