Humbug Mountain

Infobox Mountain
Name = Humbug Mountain
Photo = Humbug_mt.jpg
Caption = Humbug Mountain, viewed from bluff heads in Port Orford
Elevation = convert|1759|ft|m|lk=on [ cite web
url = http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=OA0910
title = NGS Data Sheet for HUMBUG 2
publisher = U.S. National Geodetic Survey
accessdate = 2008-04-01 ]
Location = Curry County, Oregon, USA
Range = Klamath Mountains
Prominence =
Coordinates = coord|42.6787205|-124.4367708|format=dms|region:US_type:mountain [GNIS|1143906accessdate|2008-03-31]
Topographic
USGS Port Orford
First ascent =
Easiest route = Hike

Humbug Mountain lies on the southern coast of the U.S. state of Oregon about convert|6|mi|km|0 south of Port Orford, on the Pacific Ocean. U.S. Route 101 passes by its northern base. The mountain is within Humbug Mountain State Park and is one of the tallest mountains in the continental United States to rise directly from the ocean.Fact|date=March 2008 Its slopes feature an old-growth temperate rainforest. [ cite web
url = http://gorp.away.com/gorp/publishers/fulcrum/forest_rain4.htm
title = Rain Forests of the Pacific Northwest: Oregon's Humbug Mountain State Park
publisher = GORP
accessdate = 2008-04-01 ] A three-mile trail runs from Brush Creek Canyon to its summit. The area is popular with hikers, campers, cyclists, and whale watchers.

History

Once known as Sugarloaf Mountain, it began to be called to Tichenors Humbug in 1851 when an exploring party sent by Captain William Tichenor, founder of Port Orford, got lost and headed north of Port Orford instead of south.] Since that time Tichenors Humbug came to be known as Humbug Mountain. Other names for the mountain were Mount Franklin (in 1853) and the Native American name "Me-tus".

References

External links

* cite web
url = http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_56.php Humbug Mountain State Park
title = Humbug Mountain State Park
publisher = Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department
accessdate = 2008-04-01
* cite web
url = http://gesswhoto.com/humbug.html
title = Image of Humbug Mountain viewed from Roosevelt Highway
publisher = Oregon Postcards Index
date = 1930-09-30
accessdate = 2008-04-01