Heckletooth Mountain | |
Elevation Ft: | 3682 |
Elevation Ref: | [1] |
Prominence Ft: | 242 |
Range: | Cascade Range |
Location: | Lane County, Oregon |
Map: | Oregon#USA |
Map Size: | 240 |
Coordinates: | 43.741°N -122.3687°W |
Topo: | USGS McCredie Springs |
Heckletooth Mountain is a summit in Lane County, Oregon, in the United States[2] with an elevation of .[3] It is located just north of the Willamette Highway (OR 58), in the Willamette National Forest.
Heckletooth Mountain was so named in the 1870s by a pioneer settler who likened the rocks about its jagged peak to the teeth of a hackle, a tool used to process flax.[4]