Mount Longonot

Mount Longonot
Highest point
Elevation	2,776 m (9,108 ft)[1]
Listing	Volcanoes in Kenya
Coordinates	0°54′55″S 36°27′25″E / 0.91528°S 36.45694°E / -0.91528; 36.45694
Naming
Native name	Oloonong'ot (Masai)
Geography
Mount Longonot Great Rift Valley, Kenya
Geology
Mountain type	Stratovolcano
Last eruption	1863 ± 5 years[1]
Climbing
Easiest route	Scramble

Mount Longonot is a stratovolcano located southeast of Lake Naivasha in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya, Africa. It is thought to have last erupted in the 1860s.^[1] Its name is derived from the Maasai word Oloonong'ot, meaning "mountains of many spurs" or "steep ridges".

Mount Longonot is protected by the Kenya Wildlife Service as part of Mount Longonot National Park. A 3.1 km trail runs from the park entrance up to the crater rim, and continues in a 7.2 km loop encircling the crater. The whole tour (gate-around the rim-gate) of 13.5 km takes about 4–5 hours allowing for necessary rest breaks - parts of the trail are heavily eroded and very steep. The gate elevation is around 2150 m and the peak at 2776 m but following the jagged rim involves substantially more than the 630 m vertical difference.

Mount Longonot is 60 kilometres northwest of Nairobi and may be reached from there by a tarmac road. A nearby town is also named Longonot. The Longonot satellite earth station is located south of the mountain.