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Buena Vista is located in central Colorado roughly midway between Salida and Leadville in the Upper Arkansas River Valley at an elevation of 7,965 feet (2,428 m). The area between Buena Vista and Salida is often referred to as the Denver & Rio Grande, South Park & Pacific, and Colorado Midland railroads. Many of the existing buildings of Buena ...
Mount Antero (/ æ n ˈ t ɛər oʊ /), historically called Antero Peak, [4] is the highest summit of the southern Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 14,269-foot (4349.21 m) fourteener is located in San Isabel National Forest , 12.2 miles (19.6 km) southwest by south ( bearing 208°) of the Town of Buena Vista ...
The "Mile-High City" of Denver, the Colorado state capital, is only the 170th highest of the 273 Colorado municipalities. While the Town of Holly, Colorado is the lowest municipality in Colorado, it is higher than the high-points of 19 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Central Colorado Regional Airport (ICAO: KAEJ, FAA LID: AEJ) is a public-use airport located 2 mi (3.2 km) south of Buena Vista, Colorado, United States. [1]Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA, ICAO and IATA, Central Colorado Regional Airport is assigned AEJ by the FAA and KAEJ by the ICAO but has no designation from the IATA.
Ice Mountain is a high mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.The 13,958-foot (4,254 m) thirteener is located in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness, 17.1 miles (27.5 km) west-northwest (bearing 290°) of the Town of Buena Vista, Colorado, United States, on the Continental Divide separating San Isabel National Forest and Chaffee County ...
The short segment between US 50 at Salida and US 24 at Buena Vista closely parallels the original U.S. Route 650, [4] which was designated in 1926, but eliminated in 1936 when US 285 was commissioned along its present extent from Sanderson to Denver, mostly replacing state-numbered highways.
This is a list of some important mountain passes in the Rocky Mountains of the U.S. State of Colorado. Mountain passes and highway summits traversed by improved roads [ edit ]
The location of the State of Colorado in the United States of America. The U.S. State of Colorado has 273 active municipalities, comprising 198 towns, 73 cities, and two consolidated city and county governments. [1] [2] The City and County of Denver, the state capital, [3] is the oldest municipality in Colorado.