Mount Dan Beard

{{Short description|Mountain in Alaska, United States}}

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

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Mount Dan Beard

| photo = Mount Dan Beard.jpg

| photo_caption =

| elevation_ft = 10082

| elevation_ref = {{cite peakbagger |pid=279 |name=Mount Dan Beard|accessdate=2013-04-12}}

| prominence_ft = 1710

| prominence_ref =

| parent_peak =

| range = Alaska Range

| listing =

| map = USA Alaska

| range_coordinates =

| map_caption = Location in Alaska

| map_size = 250

| label_position = right

| location = Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States

| coordinates = {{coord|63|01|13|N|150|47|13|W|type:mountain_region:US-AK_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| coordinates_ref =

| topo = USGS Mount McKinley A-2

| first_ascent =

| easiest_route = Southeast ridge

}}

Mount Dan Beard is a {{convert|10082|ft|m|0|adj=on}} mountain in the Alaska Range, in Denali National Park and Preserve. Mount Dan Beard lies to the southeast of Denali, overlooking the Don Sheldon Amphitheater of Ruth Glacier. The mountain was named in 1910 by Herschel Clifford Parker and Belmore Browne for illustrator Daniel Carter Beard, who founded the scouting organization Sons of Daniel Boone.{{cite bivouac|id=14203|name=Mount Dan Beard|accessdate=2013-04-12}}{{cite gnis|id=1400960|name=Mount Dan Beard|accessdate=2013-04-12}}