Cloud Peak is the highest peak within the Bighorn Mountains in the U.S. state of Wyoming.
Location Located in the 189,000-acre (765 km2) Cloud Peak Wilderness within Bighorn National Forest, the peak rises to an elevation of . It can be climbed most easily from the western side, accessed by either the Battle Park or West Tensleep trailheads, which both form round trips from the peak. The northeast slope is a deep cirque which harbors Cloud Peak Glacier, the last active glacier in the Bighorn Mountains.
Cloud Peak is on the border between Johnson County and Big Horn County in Wyoming and is the high point of both counties. As the high point of an isolated range, Cloud Peak has the greatest topographic prominence in the state, , one foot more than the state's highest mountain, Gannett Peak, and fifteenth greatest in the contiguous United States.
Climate Cloud Peak has an Alpine climate (ET).
Cloud Peak Reservoir is a mountain lake below Cloud Peak on its eastern slopes. The weather station there has a subalpine climate (Köppen Dfc).
See also 4000 meter peaks of North America Central Rocky Mountains Mountain peaks of North America Mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountains Mountain peaks of the United States List of Ultras of North America List of Ultras of the United States
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