Mount Blackmore facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Mount Blackmore
Mount Blackmore Location in Montana
Highest point
Elevation	10,154 ft (3,095 m)
Geography
Location	Gallatin County, Montana, U.S.'
Parent range	Gallatin Range
Topo map	USGS Mount Blackmore
Climbing
Easiest route	Hike

Mount Blackmore is located in Gallatin National Forest, in the U.S. state of Montana. Bozeman is located near the East Gallatin River, Gallatin County, Mount Blackmore is south of the City of Bozeman in the Gallatin Range.

Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden's survey expedition of the Yellowstone area named the peak for Mary Blackmore, wife of William Blackmore, an English land speculator and philanthropist who accompanied the Hayden Survey. Mary Blackmore contracted pneumonia and died in Bozeman, Montana during the early summer of 1872.