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Boulder is the principal city of the Boulder, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had 330,758 residents in 2020 and is part of the Front Range Urban Corridor. Boulder is located at the base of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, at an elevation of 5,430 feet (1,655 m) above sea level.
The City of Leadville, Colorado has been the highest elevation incorporated city in the United States since its incorporation on February 18, 1878. The Town of Winter Park, Colorado has the highest elevation within the municipal boundaries of any town in the United States at 12,060 feet (3,676 m).
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. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.
The following is a list of the world's major cities (either capitals, more than one million inhabitants or an elevation of over 1,000 m [3,300 ft]) by elevation. In addition, the country , continental region , latitude and longitude are shown for all cities listed.
sea level: 41 500 ft 150 m 38 2,405 ft 733 m Alaska [g] Denali (federally Mount McKinley) [6] [h] 1 20,310 ft 6190.5 m Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, and Arctic Ocean: 3 sea level: 15 1,900 ft 580 m 1 20,310 ft 6190.5 m
To be included on the list, a place needs to be an incorporated municipality (i.e. a city, town, or village) and it needs to be at an elevation of 3,000 feet (914 m) or higher. In the United States, settlements above 3,000 feet are found primarily on the High Plains, in the Rocky Mountains, and in Western North Carolina. However, since many ...
This is an incomplete list of notable mountains on Earth, sorted by elevation in metres above sea level. For a complete list of mountains over 7200 m high, with at least 500 m of prominence, see List of highest mountains. See also a list of mountains ranked by prominence.
The Rocky Mountains within Colorado contain 53 true peaks and 58 named peaks [53] that are 14,000 feet (4,267 m) or higher in elevation above sea level, known as fourteeners. [54] These mountains are largely covered with trees such as conifers and aspens up to the tree line , at an elevation of about 12,000 feet (3,658 m) in southern Colorado ...