Cloud Peak

Location

Located in the 189,000-acre (765 km2) Cloud Peak Wilderness within Bighorn National Forest, the peak rises to an elevation of 13171 ft. It can be climbed most easily from the western side, accessed by either the Battle Park or West Tensleep trailheads, which both form 24 mi round trips from the peak. The northeast slope is a deep cirque which harbors Cloud Peak Glacier, the last active glacier in the Bighorn Mountains.

Cloud Peak is on the border between Johnson County and Big Horn County in Wyoming and is the high point of both counties. As the high point of an isolated range, Cloud Peak has the greatest topographic prominence in the state, 7077 ft, one foot more than the state's highest mountain, 13810 foot Gannett Peak, and fifteenth greatest in the contiguous United States.

Climate

Cloud Peak has an Alpine climate (ET).

|access-date= October 2, 2023 Cloud Peak Reservoir is a mountain lake below Cloud Peak on its eastern slopes. The weather station there has a subalpine climate (Köppen Dfc).

|Jan record high F = 58 |Feb record high F = 58 |Mar record high F = 61 |Apr record high F = 67 |May record high F = 69 |Jun record high F = 80 |Jul record high F = 81 |Aug record high F = 81 |Sep record high F = 78 |Oct record high F = 70 |Nov record high F = 64 |Dec record high F = 55

|Jan avg record high F = 48.5 |Feb avg record high F = 47.6 |Mar avg record high F = 52.8 |Apr avg record high F = 58.0 |May avg record high F = 63.3 |Jun avg record high F = 70.0 |Jul avg record high F = 75.6 |Aug avg record high F = 74.1 |Sep avg record high F = 70.6 |Oct avg record high F = 62.4 |Nov avg record high F = 53.7 |Dec avg record high F = 46.6 |year avg record high F = 76.5

|Jan avg record low F = -16.2 |Feb avg record low F = -19.3 |Mar avg record low F = -11.3 |Apr avg record low F = -4.5 |May avg record low F = 7.6 |Jun avg record low F = 24.1 |Jul avg record low F = 31.9 |Aug avg record low F = 29.6 |Sep avg record low F = 17.7 |Oct avg record low F = -1.1 |Nov avg record low F = -12.7 |Dec avg record low F = -20.1 |year avg record low F = -26.1

|Jan record low F = -39 |Feb record low F = -33 |Mar record low F = -33 |Apr record low F = -21 |May record low F = -7 |Jun record low F = 13 |Jul record low F = 25 |Aug record low F = 19 |Sep record low F = 2 |Oct record low F = -25 |Nov record low F = -29 |Dec record low F = -39

|Jan snow depth inch = 38.6 |Feb snow depth inch = 47.3 |Mar snow depth inch = 59.5 |Apr snow depth inch = 63.7 |May snow depth inch = 58.5 |Jun snow depth inch = 24.3 |Jul snow depth inch = 0.0 |Aug snow depth inch = 0.0 |Sep snow depth inch = 4.7 |Oct snow depth inch = 11.4 |Nov snow depth inch = 21.0 |Dec snow depth inch = 29.9 |year snow depth inch = 69.1

|access-date = October 12, 2023 |access-date = October 12, 2023

References

References

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