Fairview Dome

{{Short description|Granite dome in the American state of California}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Fairview Dome

| photo = File:Tuolumne Meadows - Fairview Dome from Daff Dome descent - 3.JPG

| photo_caption = North and west face of Fairview Dome from Daff Dome

| elevation_ft = 9728

| elevation_ref = {{NAVD88}}{{cite peakbagger |pid=2614 |name=Fairview Dome, California |accessdate=2009-02-27}}

| prominence_ft = 643

| prominence_ref =

| parent_peak =

| map = USA California#USA

| map_caption = Location of Fairview Dome in California

| map_size = 200

| label_position = bottom

| location = Yosemite National Park, Tuolumne County, California, U.S.

| range = Sierra Nevada

| coordinates = {{coord|37|52|17|N|119|24|14|W|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis |id=253464 |name=Fairview Dome |accessdate=2009-02-27}}

| topo = USGS Tenaya Lake

| first_ascent = July 4, 1863 by H. Brewer and C.F. Hoffmann

{{cite book

| last = Voge

| first = Hervey H.

| author2 = Andrew J. Smatko

| title = Mountaineer's Guide to the High Sierra

| year = 1972

| location = San Francisco

| publisher = Sierra Club Books

| page = 58

| isbn = 0-87156-064-X }}

| easiest_route = East face, scramble {{YDS|3}}

}}

Fairview Dome is a prominent granite dome in Yosemite National Park, located {{convert|1.8|mi|km|1}} north of Cathedral Peak and {{convert|4|mi|km|1}} west of Tuolumne Meadows. Near Fairview Dome is Marmot Dome, linked by an area called Razor Back.{{cite web | url=https://www.mountainproject.com/area/108556295/marmot-dome | title=Marmot Dome Rock Climbing | publisher=mountainproject.com | work=Marmot Dome Rock Climbing | access-date=3 February 2019 | author=Lautzenheiser, Dan}} Northwest is Hammer Dome.{{cite web | url=https://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=68688 | title=Hammer Dome, California | publisher=peakbagger.com | access-date=1 March 2019}}

John Muir wrote of the peak:

{{cquote|One of the best general views of the brightest and best of the Yosemite park landscapes that every Yosemite tourist should see, is to be had from the top of Fairview Dome, a lofty conoidal rock near Cathedral Peak that long ago I named the Tuolumne Glacier Monument, one of the most striking and best preserved of the domes... The general view from the summit consists of a sublime assemblage of ice-born rocks and mountains, long wavering ridges, meadows, lakes, and forest-covered moraines, hundreds of square miles of them.

{{cite book

| last = Muir

| first = John

| author-link = John Muir

| title = The Yosemite

| url = http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Yosemite

| chapter = Chapter 11

| chapter-url = http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Yosemite/Chapter_11

| year = 1912

| access-date = 2009-08-09 }}}}

The north face route is popular with rock climbers and is listed in the classic guidebook Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. Routes vary in difficulty up to possibly class 5.11.{{cite Roper |pages=76–80}}

File:Tuolumne Meadows - Fairview Dome - summit - 04.JPG on the left, Tuolumne Meadows in the center and Cathedral Range in the right from the summit of Fairview Dome.]]