Three Waters Mountain, Wyoming

A remote peak on the Continental Divide is known as Three Waters Mountain, because waters flow down its flank into tributaries for three of the major river basins that cover much of the continent: the Columbia River, which drains into the Pacific Ocean at the Oregon/Washington state line; the Colorado River, which drains into the Pacific at the Gulf of California, south of the California/Arizona state line; and the Mississippi River, via the Missouri, which drains into the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana. Three Waters Mountain is in the remote mountains of the Wind River Range. There are just a few trails and small dirt roads through the range, which, is otherwise a mountainous barrier for 130 miles between paved roads from north to south.