Information About

Mount Brynteson

Quick Facts

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Location

64 ° 38' 8.999" N,
165 ° 24' 15.998" W

Region

Nome (CA)

Nearest City

Nome

Elevation

1693 ft (516.03 m)

Mount Brynteson in Detail.

Getting There

Fly to Nome and travel north along Snake River Rd. Glacier Creek Road Might be possible access as well.

About

Mount Brynteson sits 9 miles north of Nome, and is a decent hike close to town. It's a fairly barren mountain with small willows and shrub birch along its base and a rocky summit.

There's an open pit gold mine at the southwest base of Mount Brynteson. Remnants of abandoned mining equipment from long ceased operations can also be found on the mountains.

History

Reported as "Brunteson Peak" on the 1900 "Map of Nome Peninsula" by J. M. Davidson and B. D. Blakeslee. Named for John Brynteson, one of the "three Swedes" who discovered gold in the Nome area in the summer of 1898. Brynteson, a native of Sweden, was 40 years old in 1898 and an experienced coal and iron miner who went to Alaska to search for coal. Prior to the gold discovery, he directed work at the coal mine on Norton Sound operated by the Swedish mission at Unalakleet (Rickard, 1909, p. 330). See Lindblom Creek.

Places Near Mount Brynteson
Cities:

Discovery, Uinuk,

Capes:

Belmont Point,

Cities:

Nome,

Cliffs:

Ptarmigan Rock,

Hills:

Bonanza Hill, Dexter Peak, Native Hill,

Lakes:

Twin Lakes,

Mountains:

Anvil Mountain, Banner Peak, Black Top, Mount Brynteson, Crater Mountain, Mount Distin, Engstrom Mountain, King Mountain, Monument Rock, Newton Peak, North Newton Peak, Twin Mountain,

Rivers:

Nome River, North Fork Snake River, Snake River,

Streams:

Albion Creek, Alfield Creek, Alpha Creek, American Creek, Anvil Creek, Balto Creek, Bangor Creek, Banner Creek, Barr Creek, Basin Creek, Bear Creek, Becher Creek, Bird Creek, Blatchford Creek, Borg Creek, Boulder Creek, Boulder Creek, Bourbon Creek, Brush Creek, Buster Creek, Butterfly Creek, Camp Creek, Canyon Creek, Center Creek, Christian Creek, Clara Creek, Cold Creek, Crystal Creek, Darling Creek, David Creek, Dewey Creek, Dewey Creek, Dexter Creek, Divide Creek, Divining Creek, Dorothy Creek, Dry Creek, Elk Creek, Ellis Creek, Extra Dry Creek, Flat Creek, Francisco Creek, Fred Creek, Glacier Creek, Gold Creek, Gold Creek, Gold Run, Goldbottom Creek, Goose Creek, Grose Creek, Grouse Creek, Hart Creek, Hatch Creek, Hazel Creek, Helen Creek, Hilda Creek, Hobson Creek, Holyoke Creek, Hunter Creek, Ingraham Creek, Irene Creek, Iron Creek, Jorosa Creek, Josie Creek, July Creek, June Creek, Last Chance Creek, Laurada Creek, Left Elk Creek, Left Fork Banner Creek, Left Fork Dexter Creek, Left Fork Dry Creek, Left Fork Slate Creek, Lillian Creek, Lindblom Creek, Little Creek, Little Dexter Creek, Lost Creek, Lost Creek, Lynn Creek, Manila Creek, Martin Creek, McDonald Creek, Mile Creek, Mineral Creek, Monte Cristo Creek, Monument Creek, Moonlight Creek, Moose Creek, Mountain Creek, Mountain Creek, Mud Creek, New Bonanza Creek, Oniga Creek, Osborn Creek, Otter Creek, Peluk Creek, Prospect Creek, Quartz Creek, Queen Creek, Rifle Creek, Right Fork Slate Creek, Rock Creek, Rocky Mountain Creek, Rudolph Creek, Russel Creek, Sampson Creek, Saturday Creek, Seattle Creek, Shepard Creek, Short Creek, Short Creek, Silver Creek, Silver Creek, Skookum Creek, Slate Creek, Slate Creek, Slate Creek, Sledge Creek, Someone Creek, Sparkle Creek, Steep Creek, Sufus Creek, Sulphur Creek, Sunby Creek, Sunset Creek, Thompson Creek, Thompson Creek, Tripple Creek, Trout Creek, Twin Mountain Creek, Violet Creek, Washington Creek, Willow Creek, Windy Creek, Wonder Creek,

Valleys:

Abbe Gulch, American Gulch, Bare Gulch, Bergstrom Gulch, Berkley Canyon, Blind Gulch, Bonanza Gulch, Boston Gulch, Brandon Gulch, Burns Gulch, Butterfield Canyon, Canine Gulch, Chief Gulch, Cooper Gulch, Covina Gulch, Davis Gulch, Deer Gulch, East Gulch, Erickson Gulch, Eureka Gulch, Florence Gulch, Fox Gulch, Gass Gulch, Gold Hill Gulch, Goldpan Gulch, Goodluck Gulch, Gordon Gulch, Grace Gulch, Grass Gulch, Grouse Gulch, Grub Gulch, Hazel Gulch, Hill Gulch, Holyoke Gulch, Hoodoo Gulch, Hotel Gulch, Ice Gulch, Irish Gulch, Isabella Gulch, Jack Gulch, Joe Gulch, Josephine Gulch, July Gulch, Kanoma Gulch, Little Gulch, Little Gulch, Little Specimen Gulch, Mabe Gulch, Madison Gulch, Magnolia Gulch, Marion Gulch, Mary Gulch, Morgan Gulch, Moss Gulch, Nekula Gulch, Nellie Gulch, New Year Gulch, Newton Gulch, Nil Desperandum Gulch, Phillips Gulch, Pioneer Gulch, Quartz Gulch, Richmond Gulch, Rocker Gulch, Ruby Gulch, Scotch Gulch, Slate Gulch, Snow Gulch, Sofia Gulch, Specimen Gulch, Stevens Gulch, Tug Gulch, Union Gulch, Wet Gulch, Wet Gulch, Woodchuck Gulch,

Cities:

Perkinsville, Summit, Sunset,