Padres Butte

Short description: Butte in Glen Canyon, San Juan County, Utah, US

Padres Butte

East aspect of Padres Butte, June 2015

Highest point
Elevation| 4,043 ft (1,232 m) <=[1]
Prominence| 463 ft (141 m) [1]
Parent peak| Dominguez Butte[1]
Isolation| 1.29 mi (2.08 km) [1]
Coordinates|  [ ⚑ ] : 37°02′54″N 111°16′58″W﻿ / ﻿37.0482943°N 111.2828789°W﻿ / 37.0482943; -111.2828789 [2]
Geography

Padres Butte

Location in Utah

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Padres Butte

Padres Butte (the United States)

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Location| Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
San Juan County, Utah, U.S.
Parent range| Colorado Plateau
Topo map| USGS Gunsight Butte
Geology
Age of rock| Jurassic
Type of rock| Entrada Sandstone
Climbing
Easiest route| class 5.x climbing[1]

Padres Butte is a butte near the tip of Padre Point on the south shore of Lake Powell in San Juan County, Utah, United States.

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Gallery
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Description

The summit of the butte has an elevation of 4,043 feet (1,232 m). It was formerly an island in the man-made lake, but land connecting the butte with the rest of Padre Point has been exposed as the lake's water levels have declined.[3][4]

Padres Butte marks the site of the historical Crossing of the Fathers, a series of sand bars along the great bend in the Colorado River a mile west of the butte that once offered a fordable crossing of the river.[5] This geographical feature's name was officially adopted in 1961 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.[2]

According to the Köppen climate classification system, Gregory Butte is located in an arid climate zone with hot, very dry summers, and chilly winters with very little snow.[6]

## Gallery

* Southeast aspect

* Northeast aspect

* Padres Butte in lower right corner

## See also

* Colorado Plateau

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Padres Butte – 4,043' UT". https://listsofjohn.com/peak/24485. Retrieved 2020-11-11.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Padres Butte". United States Geological Survey. https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1431070.
3. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Padres Butte
4. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Padre Point
5. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Crossing of the Fathers (historical)
6. ↑ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11 (5): 1633. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. ISSN 1027-5606. Bibcode: 2007HESS...11.1633P.

## External links

* Weather forecast: Padres Butte

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