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Mount Wilson is the highest peak of the San Miguel Mountains. Mount Sneffels is the highest peak of the Sneffels Range. Pikes Peak is the highest peak of the Southern Front Range. The mountain was the inspiration for "America the Beautiful". Mount of the Holy Cross is the highest peak of the Northern Sawatch Range.
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Geography of Colorado
Mount Elbert in the Sawatch Range is the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains and the highest point in the U.S. State of Colorado. This is a list of major mountain peaks in the U.S. State of Colorado. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] in Colorado. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three ...
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List of mountain passes in Colorado
The Park Range, elevation approximately 3,712 metres (12,178 ft), [1] is a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains of northwestern Colorado in the United States. [1] The range forms a relatively isolated part of the Continental Divide, extending north-to-south for approximately 170 kilometres (110 mi) [1] along the boundary between Jackson (east) and Routt counties.
The rocky cores of the mountain ranges are, in most places, formed of pieces of continental crust that are over one billion years old. In the south, an older mountain range was formed 300 million years ago, then eroded away. The rocks of that older range were reformed into the Rocky Mountains. The Rocky Mountains took shape during an intense ...