Smithsonian Butte is a 6,780-foot (2,070 m) elevation summit located in the Canaan Mountain Wilderness of Washington County in southwest Utah, United States.

Its nearest higher neighbor is Zion Butte, 3.2 mi (5.1 km) to the southeast, and Eagle Crags are four miles to the east-northeast.

[2] From 1875 to 1877, Dutton's field party mapped 12,000 square miles (31,000 km2) of the high plateaus of southern Utah.

[4] The saddle between Smithsonian Butte and its parent Caanan Mountain is named Dutton Pass, after him.

This desert climate receives less than 10 inches (250 millimeters) of annual rainfall, and snowfall is generally light during the winter.