Brooks Mountain Brooks Mountain Brooks Mountain is the highest peak in the York Mountains range on the Seward Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located in the central part of the Teller Quadrangle, about east of Cape Prince of Wales. It has an elevation of . It has tin ore deposits, and high-grade uranium has also been found in the form of zeunerite. Brooks Mountain is an extension of the York Mountain Range and is its highest peak. The York Mountains range forms the watershed divide between north flowing rivers which flow into the Arctic Ocean and the streams
Mountain states Idaho and Montana both receive significant snowfalls off the mountains, and very large snowfalls in the mountains. The High Desert also exists in the northern Mountain West. Southeastern Oregon and southern Idaho have the Great Basin Desert lands located in them, which is part of the high desert. The eight Mountain States have the highest mean elevations of all 50 U.S. states. !Rank !State !Highest point !Highest elevation !Lowest point !Lowest elevation !Mean elevation !Elevation span Mountain states The Mountain States (also known as the Mountain West and the Interior West) form one of the nine geographic divisions of the