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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.. The following sortable table comprises the 117 highest mountain peaks of the U.S. State of Colorado with at least 3000 meters (9843 feet) of elevation and at least 500 meters (1640 feet) of topographic prominence.
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.
Mountain ranges of the U.S. State of Colorado; Mountain range Highest summit; Primary Secondary Tertiary Summit name Elevation Prominence Isolation; Sawatch Range [1] [2]: Central Sawatch Range
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.
Square Top Mountain; Star Mountain (Colorado) Star Peak (Colorado) Stewart Peak (Colorado) Stones Peak; Stony Mountain (Colorado) Storm King Mountain (Garfield County, Colorado) Storm Peak (Colorado) Mount Stratus; Sugarloaf Mountain (Boulder County, Colorado) Sultan Mountain; Summit Peak; Sunlight Peak; Sunshine Mountain; Sunshine Mountain ...
The Colorado Trail accesses even towards the northern peaks. The best-known and highest peak in the La Plata Mountains is Hesperus Mountain , which is the Navajo sacred mountain of the north. The seven highest summits are listed below.
Mount Massive (Arapaho: Hiwoxuu hookuhu'ee) is the second-highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado.It is located in the Mount Massive Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 10.6 miles (17.1 km) west-southwest (bearing 247°) of the City of Leadville in Lake County, Colorado, United States.
The Front Range is a mountain range of the Southern Rocky Mountains of North America located in the central portion of the U.S. State of Colorado, and southeastern portion of the U.S. State of Wyoming. [1] It is the first mountain range encountered as one goes westbound along the 40th parallel north across the Great Plains of North America.