Mount Lemmon

Mount Lemmon
Mount Lemmon
	View of Mount Lemmon from the western side of
Highest point
Elevation	9,171 ft (2,795 m) NAVD 88
Prominence	5,157 ft (1,572 m)
Listing	Arizona county high point; U.S. most prominent peaks 117th;
Coordinates	32°26′35″N 110°47′19″W
Geography
	Mount Lemmon
Location	Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, U.S.
Parent range	Santa Catalina Mountains
Topo map	USGS Mount Lemmon
Climbing
Easiest route	Catalina Highway

Mount Lemmon, with a summit elevation of 9,159 feet (2,792 m), is the highest point in the Santa Catalina Mountains. It is located in the Coronado National Forest north of Tucson, Arizona, United States. Mount Lemmon was named for botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon, who trekked to the top of the mountain with her husband and E. O. Stratton, a local rancher, by horse and foot in 1881. Mount Lemmon is also known as Babad Do'ag, or Frog Mountain to the Tohono O'odham.

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