Big Four Mountain is a 6,053 foot peak twenty miles east of Granite Falls and five miles west of the Monte Cristo mining area in east central Snohomish County. The name is said to have been chosen because of a huge figure four which reportedly appears on the mountain's flank in certain weather phases. Another local story ascribes the name to four brothers who trapped and prospected in the area and built a cabin on the later site of Big Four Inn. They were said to have been huge men, and locally called the Big Four.
