Hedges Peak

{{short description|Mountain in Wyoming, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

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| name = Hedges Peak

| photo = Hedges Peak and Dunraven Peak from Seven Mile Hole Trail.jpg

| photo_caption = Hedges Peak (left) and Dunraven Peak (right)

| elevation_ft = 9669

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| location = Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming

| range = Washburn Range

| coordinates = {{coord|44|46|39|N|110|28|47|W|display=inline,title|name=Hedges Peak}}

| coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis|id=1609261|name=Hedges Peak}}

| topo = USGS Mount Washburn

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Hedges Peak, elevation {{convert|9669|ft|m}}, is a mountain peak in the Washburn Range in Yellowstone National Park, in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The peak was named in 1895 by geologist Arnold Hague to honor Cornelius Hedges{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n152 153]}} (1837–1907), a member of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition of 1871 and a prominent Montana lawyer. Hedges' accounts of the expedition in the Helena Daily Herald newspaper contributed to the campaign to create Yellowstone National Park. Prior to 1895 the peak had been named Surprise Peak by geologist J.P. Iddings in 1883.{{cite book |last=Whittlesey |first=Lee |title=Yellowstone Place Names |publisher=Wonderland Publishing Company |location=Gardiner, MT |isbn=1-59971-716-6|year=1996 |pages=128–29}}

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