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McCurdy Mountain is a mountain summit in the Tarryall Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.The 12,172-foot (3,710 m) peak is located in the Lost Creek Wilderness of Pike National Forest, 28.2 miles (45.4 km) east (bearing 90°) of the Town of Fairplay in Park County, Colorado, United States.
Fairplay is a statutory town that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Park County, Colorado, United States. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] The town population was 724 at the 2020 United States Census . [ 4 ]
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 of 1929 (NGVD 29) to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88).
Kenosha Pass, elevation 10,000 ft (3,000 m), is a high mountain pass located in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States.. The pass sign. The pass is located in the Rocky Mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, just northeast of the town of Fairplay, Colorado.
Red Hill Pass Hwy 285. Red Hill Pass (el. 9,993 ft. [1] [2]) is a high mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States.. The pass is located in the foothills of the Mosquito Range at the northern end of South Park in Park County.
The town of Fairplay was founded as a more law-abiding place to live than the older, nearby town of Tarryall during this time and continued to be a center of gold, and later silver mining up through the middle 20th century. South Park City, an open-air museum outside Fairplay, provides a historical recreation of the gold rush days.
It is traversed by State Highway 9 between the towns of Breckenridge (north) and Fairplay (south). The highway over the pass provides an alternative route from Denver to the ski areas near Breckenridge and Keystone. It is generally open all year round, is traversable by all vehicles in good weather, but is occasionally closed during winter storms.
TopoQuest is a free web mapping service built on open source software that provides internet-based topographic map for most of the United States. The site is one of three internet services used by Wikipedia for providing topographic maps.