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Showing posts with label Elk Mountains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elk Mountains. Show all posts

Monday 1 January 2018

Aspen along County Road 25 in Gunnison County north of Lake City, Colorado

January 01, 2018 0 Comments
Aspen along County Road 25 in Gunnison County north of Lake City, Colorado
Aspen along County Road 25 in Gunnison County north of Lake City, Colorado

Aspen is the home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. Its population was 6,658 at the 2010 United States Census. Aspen is in a remote area of the Rocky Mountains' Sawatch Range and Elk Mountains, along the Roaring Fork River at an elevation just below 8,000 feet (2,400 m) above sea level on the Western Slope, 11 miles (18 km) west of the Continental Divide.

  • Country United States
  • State Colorado
  • County Pitkin

Thursday 28 December 2017

Aspen Maroon Bells lake refelction Colorado

December 28, 2017 0 Comments
Aspen Maroon Bells lake refelction Colorado Monte Trumbull
Aspen Maroon Bells lake refelction Colorado

The Maroon Bells are two peaks in the Elk Mountains, Maroon Peak and North Maroon Peak, separated by about a third of a mile. The mountains are on the border between Pitkin County and Gunnison County, Colorado, United States, about 12 miles southwest of Aspen. Both peaks are fourteeners. Maroon Peak, at 14,163 feet (4317.0 m), is the 27th highest peak in Colorado. North Maroon Peak, at 14,019 feet (4273.0 m), is the 50th highest. The view of the Maroon Bells to the southwest from the Maroon Creek valley is commonly photographed. 
  • The peaks are located in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness of White River National Forest

Peak Maroon Peak
  • Elevation 14,163 ft (4,317 m)  NAVD88
  • Prominence 2336 ft (712 m) 
  • Isolation 8.06 mi (12.97 km)
  • Listing
  • North America highest peaks 49th
  • US highest major peaks 35th
  • Colorado highest major peaks 17th
  • Colorado fourteeners 24th
  • Location Gunnison and Pitkin counties, Colorado, United States
  • Parent range Elk Mountains
  • Topo map USGS 7.5' topographic map Maroon Bells, Colorado

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