Army Peak

Army Peak, also known as Nelson Butte, is a summit near Nome on the Seward Peninsula in western Alaska, about seven miles northeast of the city amid low mountains, tundra, and the Bering Sea coast. Its name likely arose from the United States Army presence established after Fort Davis was founded in 1900. Through that connection, the mountain holds a modest place in Nome’s early twentieth-century history, when military activity accompanied the settlement’s growth during and after the gold-rush era.

Nome, Alaska · United States