Junction Peak is a thirteener in California’s Sierra Nevada, where the Sierra Crest crosses the divide between the Kern and Kings rivers. Named in 1896 by Joseph Nisbet LeConte for that meeting of crest and watershed, it also became an important administrative boundary point, marking the line between Inyo and Tulare counties and the meeting of Kings Canyon National Park, Sequoia National Park, and the John Muir Wilderness. The first recorded ascent came on August 8, 1899, by Edwin Bingham Copeland, Ernest Norton Henderson, and Maxwell Adams. Later climbers established additional class 3 and class 4 routes, followed by notable winter and technical ascents.