Mitten Rock

Mitten Rock is a 6,557-foot (1,999-meter) elevation summit located on Navajo Nation land in San Juan County of northwest New Mexico, United States.

[3] Mitten Rock is set in the northeastern part of the Navajo Volcanic Field, a volcanic field that includes intrusions and flows of minette and other unusual igneous rocks which formed around 30 million years ago during the Oligocene.

[4] Mitten Rock is one of the major diatremes of the Four Corners area, and with significant relief as it rises 900 feet (270 meters) above the high-desert plain.

[3] Precipitation runoff from this feature drains into Little Shiprock Wash, which is part of the San Juan River drainage basin.

[7] Mitten Rock is composed of felsic minette, unusual even for the Navajo volcanic field.