Maiden Peak

Infobox Mountain
Name = Maiden Peak
Photo =
Caption =
Elevation = convert|7818|ft|m [ cite web
url = http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=PB0769
title = NGS Data Sheet for MAIDEN
publisher = U.S. National Geodetic Survey
accessdate = 2008-04-01 ]
Location = Oregon, USA
Range = Cascades
Prominence = convert|2578|ft|m [ cite web
url = http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2429
title = Maiden Peak, Oregon
publisher = Peakbagger.com
accessdate = 2008-04-01 ]
Coordinates = coord|43.6267891|-121.9650304|format=dms|region:US_type:mountain [GNIS|1145754accessdate|2008-04-01]
Topographic
USGS The Twins
Type = Shield volcano
Age = < 250,000 years old [cite book | last = Wood | first = Charles A. | coauthors = Jűrgen Kienle | title = Volcanoes of North America | publisher = Cambridge University Press | date = 1993 | pages = p.354 | isbn = 0-512-43811-X ]
Last eruption =
First ascent= prehistoric Native Americans
Easiest route = trail

Maiden Peak is a steep-sided shield volcano in the Cascade Range of central Oregon. It is the highest point in the convert|43|mi|km distance between Mount Bachelor and Diamond Peak. Ice Age glaciers carved a large cirque into the northeast flank of the mountain, exposing magma which hardened in the volcano's conduits to form the numerous rock pinnacles now found in the upper part of the cirque.

The summit of Maiden Peak consists of a steeper cinder cone which sits atop the underlying shield volcano. It is located on the Cascade Crest, which forms the border between Lane County and Deschutes County. A United States Forest Service fire lookout tower was built on the summit in 1923, but destroyed in 1958. A convert|5.8|mi|km|1 long trail zigzags up to the summit from the southwest.

References

* cite book
last = Harris
first = Stephen L.
title = Fire Mountains of the West: The Cascade and Mono Lake Volcanoes (3rd ed.)
publisher = Mountain Press Publishing Company
date = 2005
isbn = 0-87842-511-X
* cite book
last = Kresek
first = Ray
title = Fire Lookouts of the Northwest (3rd ed.)
publisher = Historic Lookout Project
date = 1998
isbn = 0-87770-632-8