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Mount Blue Sky (formerly Mount Evans) is the highest peak in the Mount Evans Wilderness in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 14,266.1-foot (4,348 m) fourteener is located 13.4 miles (21.6 km) southwest by south (bearing 214°) of Idaho Springs in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide between Clear Creek in Arapaho National ...
The Mount Evans Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in Arapaho National Forest and Pike National Forest about 30 miles (48 km) west of Denver, Colorado. The wilderness area is named after Mount Blue Sky 's former name, Mount Evans [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
The 100 most topographically prominent Colorado summits; Rank Mountain Peak Mountain Range Elevation Prominence Isolation Location; 1 Mount Elbert [1] [2] [3] [a] Sawatch Range: 14,440 ft 4401.2 m: 9,093 ft 2772 m: 671 mi 1,079 km 2 Pikes Peak [4] [5] [6] [b]
Anne Evans chose a location on a hill with views of Mount Evans, named for her father in 1895 and renamed to Mount Blue Sky in 2023. [5] [6] Likely designed initially by Jock Spence, [5] it was built in 1911. It is a "particularly distinguished examples of Colorado mountain cottage. It is built of vertical logs and the foundation was of rustic ...
The Bob Cook Memorial Mount Evans Hill Climb or Mount Evans Hill Climb is a bicycle race situated on Mount Blue Sky near Idaho Springs, Colorado. Begun in 1962, [1] the race has been held every year since except for three cancellations. In 1981, it was renamed in honor of five-time race winner Bob Cook, who died of cancer at the age of 23. [2]
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. This is a list of major mountain peaks in the U.S. State of Colorado. 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 ...
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About 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the Golden city limits at the junction of Interstate 70, State Highway 26, and Mount Vernon Canyon Rd. 39°41′41″N 105°12′30″W / 39.694722°N 105.208333°W / 39.694722; -105.208333 ( Mount Vernon