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Relief map of the U.S. State of Colorado. ... Pikes Peak Highway [r] 14,115 feet 4,302 m [1] 8%: Asphalt Pikes Peak Toll Road Mountain passes traversed by unimproved ...
Colorado was voted the most difficult state for thru-hikers by 81.2 percent of 235 respondents in a 2022 survey. [28] The CDT traverses many of the highest and wildest mountain ranges of Colorado, frequently at elevations near or above timberline which is about 12,000 feet (3,700 m) in southern Colorado and 11,000 feet (3,400 m) in northern ...
Colorado State Highway 114. Pacific or Gulf of Mexico drainage. A: Spring Creek Pass: 10,889 ft (3,319 m) Traversed by Colorado State Highway 149, notably lower than Slumgullion Pass dividing just tributaries of Gunnison River that is also traversed by SH 149.
An enlargeable satellite photograph of the portion of the Rocky Mountains within the State of Colorado. ... Collegiate Peaks [9] Mount Harvard [10] [11] [e] [f ...
The following sortable table comprises the 100 most topographically prominent mountain peaks of the U.S. State of Colorado. Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid , a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.
Stormy Peaks Trail connects Colorado State University's Pingree Park campus in the Comanche Peak Wilderness and the North Fork Trail inside the park. [43] Beaver Mountain Loop, also used by horseback riders, passes through forests and meadows, crosses Beaver Brook and several aspen-filled drainages, and has a great view of Longs Peak. [43]
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] It is the fourth-highest paved road in the state after Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway, Pikes Peak Highway, and Trail Ridge Road.
A paved walkway system extends to a pair of overlooks 500 feet (150 m) to the south allowing views in that direction over the Lake Creek valley to Mount Elbert, at 14,440 feet (4,400 m) the highest peak both in Colorado and the Rocky Mountains, and La Plata Peak, another fourteener and the state's fifth-highest peak. A wide dirt path continues ...