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Virginia Peak
Virginia Peak is located in California
Virginia Peak
Virginia Peak
Location in California
Virginia Peak is located in the United States
Virginia Peak
Virginia Peak
Location in the United States
Highest point
Elevation 12,002 ft (3,658 m) NAVD 88
Prominence 482 ft (147 m)
Geography
Location Yosemite National Park, Tuolumne County, California, U.S.
Parent range Sierra Nevada
Climbing
Easiest route class 2 to class 3

Virginia Peak is a mountain in the northern part of Yosemite National Park, north of Tuolumne Meadows. It is the 25th highest mountain in Yosemite National Park.

Virginia Peaks's particulars

Virginia Peak is in northeastern Yosemite National Park, on a north-south ridge splitting off the main Sierra crest at Twin Peaks.

Virginia Pass and Sawtooth Ridge are near, as are Whorl Mountain, Excelsior Mountain and Matterhorn Peak.

Near Virginia Pass, viewed from the east, Virginia Peak looks dark, forbidding — it is not composed of more-common Yosemite granite, but of reddish metamorphic rock, such as is found on Mount Dana and Dunderberg Peak. Of note, Virginia Peak is along the ancient boundary between the Sierra Nevada Batholith's intruding granite and pre-existing sediments, which are now metamorphosed, so-called metasediments.

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