Strawberry Mountains

The Strawberry Range owes its gentle name to Nathan Willis Fisk, a homesteader who called the high point Strawberry Butte, and its creek Strawberry Creek, because wild strawberries grew there so thickly. Over time the butte became Strawberry Mountain, and the name stuck on official maps. The peak itself is much older and much fiercer than its name suggests: it is the worn-down core of an andesite volcano that poured out roughly 100 cubic kilometres of material between 16 and 14 million years ago. Ice Age glaciers later scooped out U-shaped valleys, leaving seven alpine lakes, while debris washed from the old volcano settled in the John Day valley, where it preserves fossils of early horses. The summit stands at about 2,750 metres (roughly 9,000 ft) in the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness, first protected in 1964, above the towns of Prairie City and Canyon City.

Coordinates: 44°18′45″N 118°43′00″W · Strawberry Mountain, 2,749 m

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