Wheeler Peak
13,161 Feet Above Sea Level
Named in honor of Major George Montague Wheeler (1832-1909) who for ten years led a party of surveyors and Naturalists collecting geologic, biologic, planimetric, and topographic data in New Mexico and six other southwestern states.
Marker can be reached from Twining-Blue Lake Back Pack Trail south of County Road 79.
Courtesy hmdb.org
