The Ogilvie Mountains are a mountain range

Mountain range

A mountain range is a single, large mass consisting of a succession of mountains or narrowly spaced mountain ridges, with or without peaks, closely related in position, direction, formation, and age; a component part of a mountain system or of a mountain chain...

 in the Yukon Territory that lie north of Dawson City and are crossed by the Dempster Highway

Dempster Highway

The Dempster Highway, also referred to as Yukon Highway 5 and Northwest Territories Highway 8, is a highway that connects the Klondike Highway in Yukon, Canada to Inuvik, Northwest Territories on the Mackenzie River delta...

. The best known mountains are part of the Tombstone Territorial Park

Tombstone Territorial Park

Tombstone Territorial Park is a territorial park in Yukon, Canada. It is located in central Yukon, near the southern end of the Dempster Highway, in an area of rolling tundra. The park is named for Tombstone Mountain's resemblance to a grave marker. It was made a park in 2000.-External links:*...

 .

The highest mountain within the range is Mount Frank Rae

Mount Frank Rae

Mount Frank Rae is the highest mountain of the Ogilvie Mountains in central Yukon, Canada, located northeast of Dawson City....

 at 2362 m (7,749 ft). The most familiar mountains with their jagged granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...

 peaks are Tombstone Mountain and Mount Monolith.

The area was first surveyed by William Ogilvie

William Ogilvie (surveyor)

William Ogilvie FRGS was a Canadian Dominion land surveyor, explorer and Commissioner of the Yukon Territory....

and the range subsequently named after him.

External links

• Ogilvie Mountains in the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia