Wyoming County Highpoints

Overview

Anyone who sets out to collect Wyoming county highpoints is in for an interesting exercise in climbing difficult mountains, hunting for unnamed and sometimes elusive points on county and state borders, and dealing with the headache of contacting and working with private landowners who may or may not be sympathetic to this obscure pastime. Three of the twenty most challenging county highpoints in the contiguous United States are found in Wyoming; these difficult peaks, known as "apex" highpoints, are determined by people who have vast experience with the different county highpoints. Gannett Peak, the Washakie Needles, and the Grand Teton are all on this list, which takes into account climbing difficulty, length and type of approach, and time required to successfully summit the peak in question.

To date, there are four people who have completed the twenty-one Wyoming county highpoints. On September 15, 1998, Bob Packard became the first to accomplish the feat, and since then, Parnell Taylor (1999), Jobe Wymore (2004), and Adam Helman (2008) have also finished the list. Please let me know if you or someone you know has reached all of these highpoints, and I will add them to this page.
Source: www.cohp.org

Wyoming County Highpoints List

Note: Peaks without SP pages are linked to the Lists of John site.

Rank	Image	Peak Name	County	Elevation	Prominence	YDS Class	Quad	Map Link
1		Gannett Peak	Fremont & Sublette	13,804	7,076	4	Gannett Peak	Map
2		Grand Teton	Teton	13,770	6,550	5.4	Grand Teton	Map
3		Cloud Peak	Big Horn & Johnson	13,167	7,077	2	Cloud Peak	Map
4		Francs Peak	Park	13,153	4,056	2	Francs Peak	Map
5		Washakie Needles	Hot Springs	12,518	1,347	5.2	Monument Peak	Map
6		Medicine Bow Peak	Albany	12,013	3,243	2	Medicine Bow Peak	Map
7		Carbon County HP	Carbon	11,920	0	2	Medicine Bow Peak	Map
8		Wyoming Peak	Lincoln	11,378	3,558	1	Wyoming Peak	Map
9	No Image	Sheridan County HP	Sheridan	11,020	800	4	Dome Lake	Map
10	No Image	Uinta County HP	Uinta	9,790	40	N/A	Elizabeth Mountain	Map
11		Washakie County Highpoint	Washakie	9,620	160	2	Meadowlark Lake	Map
12	No Image	Pine Mountain	Sweetwater	9,550	1,273	1	Red Creek Ranch	Map
13	No Image	Warbonnett Peak	Converse	9,414	1,745	2+	Warbonnett Peak	Map
14	No Image	Mine Benchmark	Natrona	9,121	1,741	1	Badwater NE	Map
15	No Image	Twin Benchmark	Laramie	8,146	356	2	Buford	Map
16	No Image	Platte County HP	Platte	7,230	0	1	Indian Guide	Map
17	No Image	Cement Ridge HP	Crook	6,674	574	2	Old Baldy Mountain	Map
18	No Image	Weston County HP	Weston	6,630	0	2	Buckhorn	Map
19	No Image	Goshen County HP	Goshen	6,130	960	1	Rawhide Buttes West	Map
20	No Image	Niobrara County HP	Niobrara	6,110	505	2	Silver Springs	Map
21	No Image	North Butte	Campbell	6,052	842	2	North Butte	Map

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Trip Reports and Access Issues

This section provides links to trip reports for the Wyoming County Highpoints that are found on SummitPost and www.cohp.org. The highpoints for Campbell, Niobrara, Platte, and Uinta counties are located on or are reached by crossing through private land. Of the four, Uinta is the most problematic to reach, as the owner is known to have denied multiple requests to reach this spot.

Three counties (Niobrara, Platte, and Washakie) have multiple highpoints that fall within the same contour lines, so bring your GPS and read the trip reports for help on determining where the actual highest point is; in some cases, it might be necessary to visit several spots to ensure that you have tagged the point in question.

Gannett Peak
Grand Teton
Cloud Peak
Francs Peak
Washakie Needles
Medicine Bow Peak
Carbon County HP
Wyoming Peak
Sheridan County HP
Uinta County HP
Washakie County HP
Pine Mountain
Warbonnett Peak
Mine Benchmark
Twin Benchmark
Platte County HP
Cement Ridge HP
Weston County HP
Goshen County HP
Niobrara County HP
North Butte

To peruse other trip reports, visit the Wyoming page on the COHP website.

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