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The highest point in Colorado and the Rocky Mountains as a whole is the summit of Mount Elbert in Lake County at 14,440 feet (4,401.2 m). Of the 64 Colorado counties, 20 counties rise above 14,000 feet (4,267 m) elevation, 32 counties rise above 13,000 feet (3,962 m), 42 counties rise above 10,000 feet (3,048 m), and all 64 Colorado counties ...
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.. The following sortable table comprises the 117 highest mountain peaks of the U.S. State of Colorado with at least 3000 meters (9843 feet) of elevation and at least 500 meters (1640 feet) of topographic prominence.
Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into Peru Creek → Snake River → Dillon Reservoir → Blue River → Colorado River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 2,400 feet (732 m) above Peru Creek in one mile (1.6 km). The mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names. [4]
The topographic prominence of a summit is the elevation difference between that summit and the highest or key col to a higher summit. The topographic isolation of a summit is the minimum great-circle distance to a point of equal elevation. All elevations in this article include an elevation adjustment from the National Geodetic Vertical Datum ...
Bald Mountain is a high and prominent mountain summit in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,690-foot (4,173 m) thirteener is located in Arapaho National Forest , 5.5 miles (8.9 km) southeast ( bearing 135°) of the Town of Breckenridge in Summit County , Colorado , United States .
Summit County was organized as one of the seventeen original Colorado counties by the First Territorial Legislature on November 1, 1861. It was named for the many mountain summits in the county. Until February 2, 1874, its boundaries included the area now comprising Summit County, Grand County , Routt County , Moffat County , Garfield County ...
The topographic isolation of a summit is the minimum great-circle distance to a point of equal elevation. This article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least 100 meters (328.1 feet) of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a summit with at least 500 meters (1640 feet) of topographic prominence.
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 principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. [b] [c] The first table below ranks the 55 highest major summits of Colorado by elevation.