Mount Hopkins (California)

{{Short description|Mountain in United States of America}}

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

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Mount Hopkins

| photo = Mount Hopkins.jpg

| photo_caption = Mount Hopkins southeast aspect

| elevation_ft = 12304

| elevation_ref = {{NGVD29}}{{cite peakbagger |id=38721 |name=Mount Hopkins, California |accessdate=2012-12-12}}

| prominence_ft = 424

| prominence_ref =

| location = Fresno County, California, U.S.

| range = Sierra Nevada

| map = USA California#USA

| coordinates = {{coord|37.4638238|N|118.8129018|W|type:mountain_region:US-CA_scale:100000_source:GNIS|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| range_coordinates =

| coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis |id=261461 |name=Mount Hopkins |accessdate=2008-12-22}}

| topo = USGS Mount Abbot

| first_ascent = 1934 by David Brower, Norman Clyde, and Hervey Voge

{{cite book

| last1 = Voge | first1 = Hervey H.

| last2 = Smatko | first2 = Andrew J.

| title = Mountaineer's Guide to the High Sierra

| page = 108

| year = 1972

| publisher = Sierra Club Books

| location = San Francisco

| isbn = 978-0-87156-064-3}}

| easiest_route = Hike from the east

}}

Mount Hopkins is a mountain in the John Muir Wilderness north of Kings Canyon National Park. It is one of four peaks that surround Pioneer Basin, {{convert|1.4|mi}} south-southeast of Mount Crocker, {{convert|2|mi}} west-southwest of Mount Huntington, and {{convert|2|mi}} southwest of Mount Stanford. The mountain was named for Mark Hopkins, one of the builders of the Central Pacific Railroad.{{cite Farquhar |index=H |accessdate=2009-08-11}}