{{Short description|Landform in the Grand Canyon, Arizona}} {{Use American English|date=February 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Angels Gate | image = Angels Gate.jpg | image_caption = Angels Gate illuminated, from Shoshone Point | label = Angels Gate | label_position = right | elevation_ft = 6761 | elevation_ref = <ref name="pb">{{cite peakbagger|id=89450|name=Angels Gate, Arizona|accessdate=2020-12-24}}</ref> | prominence_ft = 1361 | prominence_ref = <ref name="pb"/> | isolation_mi = 1.53 | isolation_ref = <ref name="pb"/> | parent_peak = Wotans Throne (7,721 ft)<ref name="pb"/> | country = United States | state = Arizona | region = Coconino | region_type = County | part_type = Protected&nbsp;area | part = Grand Canyon National Park | range = Kaibab Plateau<ref name="pb"/><br />Colorado Plateau | map = Arizona#USA | map_size = 230 | map_caption = Location in Arizona | coordinates = {{coord|36.0938645|N|111.9900718|W|type:mountain_region:US-AZ_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_ref = <ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis |id=655 |name=Angels Gate |accessdate=2020-12-24}}</ref> | topo = USGS ''Cape Royal'' | rock = sandstone, siltstone, mudstone | first_ascent = April 1972 | easiest_route = {{YDS|5.8}} climbing<ref name="listsofjohn">{{cite web |url = https://listsofjohn.com/peak/72424 |title = Angels Gate – 6,761' AZ |website = Lists of John |access-date = December 24, 2020 }}</ref> }}

'''Angels Gate''' is a {{convert|6,761|ft|adj=on}}-elevation summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of Arizona, United States.<ref name="gnis"/> It is situated {{convert|7|mi|spell=in}} due north of the Grandview Point overlook on the canyon's South Rim, {{convert|3|mi|spell=in}} west of Vishnu Temple, and {{convert|3.5|mi|spell=in}} southeast of Zoroaster Temple. Topographic relief is significant as it rises over {{convert|4,200|ft}} above the Colorado River in three miles. Angels Gate is the place in Paiute mythology where the gods would return to Earth by descending from the shadow world above.<ref>George Wharton James, ''In & Around the Grand Canyon'', 1900, Little, Brown, and Company, page 90.</ref>

George Wharton James applied the "Angel Gate" name to this geographical feature in his book, ''In & Around the Grand Canyon'', in 1900. This feature's name was officially adopted in 1906 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.<ref name="gnis"/> Angels Gate has four peaks composed of Coconino Sandstone. The main highest summit and three spires are known as "Snoopy and his Doghouse" for a resemblance to Snoopy, and the first ascent was made April 1972 by Chuck Graf and Dave Ganci.<ref>[https://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/hike-symposium.htm National Park Service]</ref><ref>John Annerino, ''Adventuring in Arizona'', 1991, Sierra Club Books, {{ISBN|9780871566812}} page 327.</ref> According to the Köppen climate classification system, Angels Gate is located in a cold semi-arid climate zone.<ref name=Peel>{{cite journal | author = Peel, M. C. |author2=Finlayson, B. L. |author3=McMahon, T. A. | year = 2007 | title = Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification | journal = Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. | volume = 11 | issn = 1027-5606}}</ref>

==Geology==

The summit of Angels Gate is composed of remnant, cliff-forming, Permian Coconino Sandstone.<ref>N.H. Darton, ''Story of the Grand Canyon of Arizona'', 1917, page 56.</ref> The sandstone, which is the third-youngest of the strata in the Grand Canyon, was deposited 265&nbsp;million years ago as sand dunes. Below the Coconino Sandstone is slope-forming, Permian Hermit Formation, which in turn overlays the Pennsylvanian-Permian Supai Group. Further down are strata of Mississippian Redwall Limestone, Cambrian Tonto Group, and finally Proterozoic Unkar Group at creek level and Granite Gorge.<ref>N.H. Darton, ''Story of the Grand Canyon of Arizona'', 1917.</ref> Precipitation runoff from Angels Gate drains south to the Colorado River.

==Gallery== <div style="max-width: 500px;"> <gallery mode=slideshow> File:Angels Gate NW.jpg|Northwest aspect File:Angels Gate with Deva Temple.jpg|Angels Gate, with Deva Temple behind File:Angel's gate Grand Canyon.jpg|South aspect File:Angels Gate, Grand Canyon 2011.jpg|From the southeast File:Wotans Throne behind Angels Gate.jpg|Wotans Throne behind Angels Gate File:Grand Canyon at sunset.jpg|Sunset from Desert View, Angels Gate (lower left of center) File:Wotans Throne and Angels Gate.jpg|Wotans Throne (left) and Angels Gate from west on Tonto Trail File:Angels Gate, GCNP.jpg|Angels Gate from Desert View File:Angels Gate 1901.jpg|Angels Gate from south, circa 1901 File:Angels Gate - Grand Canyon.jpg|Angels Gate (centered) </gallery> </div>

==Hawkins Butte== thumb|Hawkins Butte Hawkins Butte is a {{convert|5340|ft|adj=on}}-elevation butte attached at the southwest end of Angels Gate.<ref name="listsofjohn2">{{cite web |url = https://listsofjohn.com/peak/74949 |title = Hawkins Butte – 5,340' AZ |website = Lists of John |access-date = 2021-02-03}}</ref> It was officially named in 1932 after William "Billy" Robert Hawkins, the hunter and cook for John Wesley Powell's 1869 expedition down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.<ref name="gnis2">{{cite gnis |id=5633 |name=Hawkins Butte |accessdate=2021-02-03}}</ref> It is primarily composed of exposed cliffs of Redwall Limestone overlaying Tonto Group.

==See also== * Geology of the Grand Canyon area * Dunn Butte

==References== {{reflist}}

== External links == {{stack|{{commons category|Angels Gate}}}} * Weather forecast: [https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lon=-111.990144&lat=36.093822#.X-UkJjSSmUm National Weather Service] * Angels Gate rock climbing: [https://www.mountainproject.com/area/106633391/angels-gate Mountainproject.com] * Photo of Billy Hawkins: [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9159352e-673b-8208-e040-e00a18061c62 NY Public Library] * Billy Hawkins' account of expedition: [http://www.rockhounds.com/grand_hikes/powell/hawkins_account.shtml Rockhounds.com] * [https://archive.library.nau.edu/digital/collection/cpa/id/93318/rec/171 Angels Gate photo] by Harvey Butchart

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