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Kings Mountain is a 5,809-foot summit in Alaska’s northwestern Chugach Mountains, northeast of Palmer in the Matanuska Valley along the Glenn Highway. Long recognized as a local landmark, it took its English name from prospector Al King, whose nearby cabin helped attach the name by about 1905 before its official adoption in 1906 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. The mountain is also known in Denaʼina as Bashtl'ech' and in Ahtna as Bes Tl'ets', both meaning “black stone.” Its subarctic setting brings heavy precipitation, long snowy winters, and relatively favorable climbing or viewing in May and June.
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