Humbug Mountain

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Coordinates: 42°40′43″N 124°26′12″W / 42.6787205, -124.4367708

Humbug Mountain

Humbug Mountain, viewed from bluff heads in Port Orford
Elevation 1,759 feet (536 m)[1]
Location Curry County, Oregon, USA
Range Klamath Mountains
Coordinates 42°40′43″N 124°26′12″W / 42.6787205, -124.4367708[2]
Topo map USGS Port Orford
Easiest route Hike

Humbug Mountain lies on the southern coast of the U.S. state of Oregon about 6 miles (10 km) south of Port Orford, on the Pacific Ocean. U.S. Route 101 passes by its northern base. The mountain is within Humbug Mountain State Park and is one of the tallest mountains in the continental United States to rise directly from the ocean.[citation needed] Its slopes feature an old-growth temperate rainforest.[3] A three-mile trail runs from Brush Creek Canyon to its summit. The area is popular with hikers, campers, cyclists, and whale watchers.

[edit] History

Once known as Sugarloaf Mountain, it began to be called to Tichenors Humbug in 1851 when an exploring party sent by Captain William Tichenor, founder of Port Orford, got lost and headed north of Port Orford instead of south.[4] The name was chosen "to palliate their gross failure."[5] Since that time Tichenors Humbug came to be known as Humbug Mountain.[4] Other names for the mountain were Mount Franklin (in 1853) and the Native American name Me-tus.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ NGS Data Sheet for HUMBUG 2. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. Retrieved on 2008-04-01.
  2. ^ USGS GNIS: Humbug Mountain. Retrieved on 2008-03-31.
  3. ^ Rain Forests of the Pacific Northwest: Oregon's Humbug Mountain State Park. GORP. Retrieved on 2008-04-01.
  4. ^ a b c McArthur, Lewis A.; Lewis L. McArthur [1928] (2003). Oregon Geographic Names, Seventh Edition, Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. ISBN 0-87595-277-1. 
  5. ^ A 1940 Oregon Coast Tour: Port Orford to California Line. Oregon State Archives. Retrieved on 2008-03-22.

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