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2. Red Mountain Pass (San Juan Mountains) - Wikipedia

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   Red Mountain Pass elevation 11,018 ft (3,358 m) is a mountain pass in the San Juan Mountains of western Colorado in the United States. The pass straddles a divide that separates Ouray and San Juan counties. The pass is named for the nearby Red Mountain on the northeast side of the pass. The name is derived from the iron oxide laden rock that ...

3. Red Mountain (Ouray County, Colorado) - Wikipedia

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   Ouray County, Colorado, U.S. [6] Red Mountain is a set of three peaks in the San Juan Mountains of western Colorado in the United States, about five miles (8.0 km) south of Ouray. The mountains get their name from the reddish iron ore rocks that cover the surface. Several other peaks in the San Juan Mountains likewise have prominent reddish ...

4. Mount McDowell - Wikipedia

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   Mount McDowell. Mount McDowell (O'odham: S-wegĭ Doʼag, Yavapai: Wi:kawatha), more commonly referred to as Red Mountain, is located on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation, just north of Mesa, Arizona. It is named after General Irvin McDowell, a Union officer in the Civil War. Its elevation is 2,832 feet (863 m).

5. Wolf Creek Pass - Wikipedia

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   Wolf Creek Pass is a high mountain pass on the Continental Divide, in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. It is the route through which U.S. Highway 160 passes from the San Luis Valley into southwest Colorado on its way to New Mexico and Arizona. The pass is notable as inspiration of a C. W. McCall song. The pass is significantly steep on ...

6. San Juan Mountains - Wikipedia

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   San Juan Mountains. The San Juan Mountains is a high and rugged mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico. The area is highly mineralized (the Colorado Mineral Belt) and figured in the gold and silver mining industry of early Colorado. Major towns, all old mining camps, include Creede, Lake City ...

7. San Juan Skyway Scenic and Historic Byway - Wikipedia

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   The San Juan Skyway Scenic and Historic Byway is a 236-mile (380 km) All-American Road, National Forest Scenic Byway, and Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway located in Dolores, La Plata, Montezuma, San Juan, and San Miguel counties, Colorado, United States. The byway forms a loop in southwestern Colorado traversing the heart of the San Juan ...

8. Tennessee Pass (Colorado) - Wikipedia

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   Tennessee Pass is the location of the first transbasin diversion project to move water from the Colorado River Basin over the continental divide to the Arkansas River. The 1.5-mile (2.4 km) Ewing Placer Ditch (or just Ewing Ditch) was constructed in 1880 and remains in use.

9. Red Mountain Town, Colorado - Wikipedia

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   Red Mountain Town, as it would become known, formed part of the Red Mountain Pass mining district between Silverton and Ouray. Alongside the Ironton, Guston, Sweetville, Rogerville, and Park City, Red Mountain Town formed a corridor through which the Silverton Railroad narrow-gauge ran, delivering ore to be processed in and transported from ...