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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.
Relief map of the U.S. State of Colorado. This is a list of some important mountain passes in the Rocky Mountains of the U.S. State of Colorado . Mountain passes and highway summits traversed by improved roads
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.
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.
Alpine Tunnel, first tunnel over Continental Divide in Colorado, highest railroad tunnel and at 1,772 ft (540 m) longest narrow-gauge tunnel in North America. Tunnel abandoned since 1910, impassable, unpaved road on approaches, reconstructed telegraph office with station platform near southern (wester
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 ...
As the Front Range rose, streams and recent (16,000 years ago) glaciations during the Quaternary age literally unburied the range by cutting through the weaker sediment and giving rise to the granitic peaks present today. [2] This was the last step in forming the present-day geologic sequence and history of today's Front Range. [2]
Selected mountain passes of the Rocky Mountains; Pass Region Elevation [1] [2] WGS84 [3] [4] Access; Abbot Pass [5] Alberta British Columbia 2922 m 9,587 ft Foot trail between Banff National Park and Yoho National Park