Dunraven Pass

8,859 feet (2,700 m)) is a mountain pass on the Grand Loop Road between Tower and Canyon in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.In 1874, just two years after the park's creation, The 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, an Anglo-Irish peer, made a visit to Yellowstone in conjunction with a hunting expedition to the Northern Rockies.Lord Dunraven was so impressed with the park, that he devoted well over 150 pages to Yellowstone in his The Great Divide, published in London by Chatto & Windus in 1876.The Great Divide was one of the earliest works to praise and publicize the park.In 1878 during a U.S. Geological Survey of the park, Henry Gannett, a geographer working with the survey, named a peak just two miles southwest of Mount Washburn in the honor of the Earl of Dunraven and the service his book had done for the park.
ElevationGrand Loop RoadYellowstone National ParkPark County, WyomingUnited StatesCoordinates NAVD 88mountain passWyomingThe 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-EarlAnglo-IrishU.S. Geological SurveyHenry GannettMount WashburnPhiletus NorrisDunraven PeakNational Geodetic SurveyNational Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationUnited States Department of CommerceJohn F. YanceyLamar Buffalo RanchNortheast Entrance StationRoosevelt Lodge Historic DistrictYanceys, WyomingAbiathar PeakBarronette PeakBeartooth HighwayCooke City, MontanaCook PeakDruid PeakFolsom PeakGrand Canyon of the YellowstoneHedges PeakLamar RiverMount HornadayMount NorrisOverhanging CliffProspect PeakSilver Gate, MontanaSlough Creek (Wyoming)Soda Butte CreekSpecimen RidgeThe ThundererTower FallTrout Lake (Wyoming)Yellowstone FallsYellowstone RiverList of Yellowstone National Park related articlesCheyenneBibliographyGovernorsDelegationsHistoryPeopleState symbolsRadio stationsAbortionClimate changeDemographicsEconomyEducationGun lawsLGBT rightsPoliticsBlack HillsGrand TetonGreat BasinPowder River CountryRed DesertYellowstoneCitiesBuffaloCasperDouglasEvanstonGilletteGreen RiverJacksonKemmererLanderLaramieNewcastlePowellRawlinsRivertonRock SpringsSheridanTorringtonWorlandCountiesAlbanyBig HornCampbellCarbonConverseFremontGoshenHot SpringsJohnsonLincolnNatronaNiobraraPlatteSubletteSweetwaterWashakieWeston