# Pelican Butte

- **Country:** United States
- **Coordinates:** 42.513429, -122.145282
- **Age:** Pleistocene
- **Topo:** USGS Pelican Butte
- **Type:** Shield volcano
- **Range:** Cascades
- **Location:** Klamath County, Oregon, U.S.
- **Elevation Ft:** 8037
- **Volcanic Arc:** Cascade Volcanic Arc
- **Easiest Route:** Dirt road
- **Last Eruption:** Pleistocene

Pelican Butte is a steep-sided shield volcano in the Cascade Range of southern Oregon. It is located due south of Crater Lake and northeast of Mount McLoughlin. Pelican Butte is the most prominent shield volcano in the southern Oregon Cascades and has a large volume at , making it one of the bigger Quaternary volcanoes in the region, approaching the size of some of the range's stratovolcanoes. While still part of the Cascades, Pelican Butte is disconnected from the main axis, forming above faults along the eastern border of the range. Pelican Butte is part of the Quaternary Mount McLoughlin Reach, a volcanic vent zone that runs from the volcano to Aspen Lake, encompassing 33 vents over an area of . Ice age glaciers carved a large cirque into the northeast flank of the mountain, but despite this erosion, its original shape is largely preserved. Several proposals have been made over the last few decades for the development of a ski area on this flank, with none implemented.

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**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelican_Butte (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)