Bartlett Peak (Texas)

Bartlett Peak is an 8,519-foot-elevation (2,597-meter) summit in Culberson County, Texas, United States.

Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises over 4,500 feet (1,372 m) above Salt Basin in three miles (4.8 km).

[6] The Salt Basin Dunes provides a good location to view the peak from a distance.

[3] He passed through this region in the 1850s and wrote one of the best early descriptions of these mountains when in 1854 he published A Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora and Chihuahua, in which he described the Guadalupe Mountains as "a dark, gloomy-looking range, with bold and forbidding sides, consisting of huge piles of rock, their debris heaped far above the surrounding hills.

"[6] Based on the Köppen climate classification, Bartlett Peak is located in a cold semi-arid climate zone with relatively hot summers, calm, mild autumn weather, and cool to cold weather in winter and early spring.