Hurricane Mesa is an mountain summit in Park County, Wyoming, United States.
Description This remote mountain is located approximately east of Yellowstone National Park in the North Absaroka Wilderness, on land managed by Shoshone National Forest. It is part of the Absaroka Range which is a subrange of Rocky Mountains. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into tributaries of Crandall Creek which is part of the Yellowstone River drainage basin. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises nearly above North Fork Crandall Creek in . The mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names, and has appeared in publications since at least 1925.Journal of Geology, Volume 33, University of Chicago Press, 1925, page 580.
Climate According to the Köppen climate classification system, Hurricane Mesa is located in an alpine subarctic climate zone with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool to mild summers. Winter temperatures can drop below 0 °F with wind chill factors below −10 °F.
See also List of mountain peaks of Wyoming Geology of the Rocky Mountains
References
External links Weather forecast: Hurricane Mesa National Geodetic Survey Data Sheet