Mount Baxter (California)

{{Short description|Mountain in the state of California}} {{Use American English|date=February 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Mount Baxter | image = Acrodectes Baxter.jpg | image_caption = Mount Baxter is on the right, viewed from the north | elevation_ft = 13,141 | elevation_ref = {{navd88}}<ref name="pb">{{cite peakbagger |pid=2756 |title=Mount Baxter, California |accessdate=2008-11-24}}</ref> | prominence_ft = 603 | prominence_ref = <ref name="pb"/> | parent_peak = Acrodectes Peak<ref name="loj">{{cite loj |id=32376 |name=Mount Baxter |accessdate=2012-04-01}}</ref> | listing = Sierra Peaks Section<ref name="sps">{{cite sps |accessdate=2016-03-24}}</ref> | location = Fresno and Inyo counties, California, U.S. | range = Sierra Nevada | map = USA California#USA | map_caption = none | map_size = 220 | coordinates = {{coord|36.861513|N|118.362139|W|type:mountain_region:US-CA_scale:100000_source:Peakbagger|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | range_coordinates = | coordinates_ref = <ref name="pb"/> | topo = USGS Kearsarge Peak | type = Granitic | age = Cretaceous | first_ascent = 1905 by George Davis<ref name="Secor">{{cite Secor |edition=3 |pages=275–276}}</ref> | easiest_route = Scramble, {{YDS|2}}<ref name="Secor"/> }}

'''Mount Baxter''' is a peak along the crest of the Sierra Nevada in California. Mount Baxter is on the boundary between Kings Canyon National Park and the John Muir Wilderness just north of Baxter Pass and to the northeast of the Rae Lakes, a popular backpacking destination along the John Muir Trail.

Mount Baxter is named for John Baxter, who was a rancher in the Owens Valley.<ref>{{cite book |last=Browning |first=Peter |title=Place Names of the Sierra Nevada |publisher=Wilderness Press |year=1986 |location=Berkeley |page=[https://archive.org/details/placenamesofsier00brow/page/12 12] |isbn=978-0-89997-119-3 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/placenamesofsier00brow/page/12 }}</ref>

The mountain provides habitat for the endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep and was closed to entry in the recent past.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Baxter, Mount}} Category:Mountains of Kings Canyon National Park Category:Mountains of Inyo County, California Category:Mountains of Fresno County, California Category:Mountains of Northern California Category:Mountains of the John Muir Wilderness