Location: Joshua Tree National Park
This peak is named for socialite and South Pasadena resident Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, who became a lover of deserts and desert plants and put on large exhibitions of desert plants all over the country, bring entire rail cars of plants and soil with her for the exhibits. She and the International Desert Conservation League that she founded were instrumental in the creeation of Joshua Tree National Monument (now Park), Anza Borrego State Park, and Death Valley National Park.
Peak was added to the HPS list in 2014.
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