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Mount Fitzgerald (Nevada)

For other uses, see Mount Fitzgerald (disambiguation).

Mount Fitzgerald is the fourth-highest named mountain in the Ruby Mountains and the fifth-highest in Elko County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is the thirty-ninth-highest mountain in the state.[3] It rises from the heads of both Thomas and Right Fork Canyons (branches of Lamoille Canyon), and is also part of the north wall of Box Canyon, making it a true glacial horn. The summit is a high-level ridge and is located about 24 miles (39 km) southeast of the community of Elko, within the Ruby Mountains Wilderness of the Ruby Mountains Ranger District in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.

Mount Fitzgerald, Nevada, looking southwest.

References

  1. ^ a b "Mount Fitzgerald, Nevada". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
  2. ^ "Mount Fitzgerald". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved November 21, 2008.
  3. ^ "Nevada 11,000-foot Peaks". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved October 22, 2014.