Mentasta Mountains

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View from the Tok Cut -Off on the Mentasta Mountains

The Mentasta Mountains are a mountain range in the eastern Alaska with a maximum altitude of 2315 m. They lie partly in Wrangell-St Elias National Park and Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge and form the eastern end of the Alaska Range.

The boundaries of the mountain range forming the Slana River to the west, the Jack Creek in the south, the Nabesna River in the east and Station and Tuck Creek in the north. West of the Mountains Mentasta runs the Tok Cut -Off and north of the Alaska Highway. South close the Wrangell Mountains and east to the Nutzotin Mountains.

The name is derived from the name of the indigenous people for a pass in the northwest of the mountain range and was documented in 1902 by DC Witherspoon from the United States Geological Survey.