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Bill Williams Peak, elevation 13,389 feet (4,081 m), is an (officially unnamed) mountain located in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The summit of the mountain is the high point of the Williams Mountains , a subrange of the Sawatch Range .
Mount Elbert in the Sawatch Range is the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains and the highest point in Colorado. The following sortable table comprises the 100 most topographically prominent mountain peaks of the U.S. State of Colorado.
At mile number 369 in Colorado for north-bound hikers, Twin Lakes is the first town in Colorado located on the CDT and is a rest and resupply center. Mount Elbert and Mount Massive. Colorado's highest peaks are near the CDT. Grays Peak. The highest summit on the CDT has an elevation of 14,278 feet (4,352 m) Grand Lake.
The highest peak in Colorado, Mount Elbert, is 4.97 miles (8.00 km) to the north and line parent Rinker Peak is 0.62 mile to the southwest. [3] The mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names .
Pawnee Pass, elevation 12,542 ft (3,823 m), is a mountain pass that crosses the Continental Divide in the Indian Peaks of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado in the United States. It is located near the Long Lake Trailhead in the Brainard Lake Recreation Area of the Indian Peaks Wilderness. [ 2 ]
It is located along the border of Gunnison and Chaffee counties in Colorado, and is in the Sawatch Range. The road over Cottonwood Pass is the highest paved crossing of the Continental Divide in the U.S., and the second highest pass with an improved road in the state (the highest is Trail Ridge Road , US HWY 34 at 12,183 ft). [ 2 ]
Grays Peak is located in Arapahoe National Forest, 3.9 miles (6.2 km) southeast by east (bearing 122°) of Loveland Pass on the Continental Divide between Clear Creek and Summit counties. The peak is the highest point in both counties. [3] [a] [2] [4] Grays Peak is one of 53 fourteeners (mountains of over 14,000 feet (4,300 m) in elevation) in ...
The landform's toponym was officially adopted on November 19, 1940, by the United States Board on Geographic Names to honor Roger Wolcott Toll (1883–1936), American mountaineer, superintendent of nearby Rocky Mountain National Park (1921–1929), and author of The Mountain Peaks of Colorado. [3] He is also the namesake of Toll Mountain in Texas.