Lee Vining Peak is an 11,690-foot-elevation (3,563 meter) summit located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Mono County of northern California, United States.
The peak is situated north of Lee Vining Canyon, and 1.8 miles (2.9 km) southeast of Mount Warren, which is the nearest higher neighbor.
The mountain's toponym was officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names to honor Leroy Vining, an early pioneer who in 1852 established a small mining camp that would later become the town of Lee Vining, California, which is five miles east-southeast of the peak.
His life ended in 1863 at the Exchange Saloon in Aurora, Nevada, where he accidentally shot himself in the groin with the pistol in his pocket.
As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks (orographic lift), causing moisture in the form of rain or snowfall to drop onto the range.