Mount Dan Beard | |
Elevation Ft: | 10082 |
Elevation Ref: | [1] |
Prominence Ft: | 1710 |
Range: | Alaska Range |
Map: | USA Alaska |
Map Size: | 250 |
Label Position: | right |
Location: | Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States |
Coordinates: | 63.0203°N -150.7869°W |
Topo: | USGS Mount McKinley A-2 |
Easiest Route: | Southeast ridge |
Mount Dan Beard is a 100820NaN0 mountain in the Alaska Range, in Denali National Park and Preserve. Mount Dan Beard lies to the southeast of Denali, overlooking the Don Sheldon Amphitheater of Ruth Glacier. The mountain was named in 1910 by Herschel Clifford Parker and Belmore Browne for illustrator Daniel Carter Beard, who founded the scouting organization Sons of Daniel Boone.[2] [3]