Blaine Basin

Blaine Basin is a depression in Ouray, Colorado and has an elevation of 10,781 feet. Blaine Basin is situated nearby to the hamlet Camp Bird.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Sneffels and Teakettle Mountain.

Mount Sneffels

Peak

Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Mount Sneffels is the highest summit of the Sneffels Range in the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,153-foot fourteener is located in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness of Uncompahgre National Forest, 6.7 miles west by south of the City of Ouray in Ouray County, Colorado, United States.

Teakettle Mountain, elevation 13,825 ft, is a summit in the Sneffels Range of southwest Colorado. The peak is west of Ouray in the Uncompahgre National Forest. Teakettle Mountain is situated 1½ miles southeast of Blaine Basin.

Gilpin Peak

Peak

Photo: Greg Willis, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Gilpin Peak is a high mountain summit in the Sneffels Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,700-foot thirteener is located in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness of Uncompahgre National Forest, 3.5 miles north-northeast of the Town of Telluride, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide between Ouray County and San Miguel County. Gilpin Peak is situated 2 miles south of Blaine Basin.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Camp Bird and Thistledown.

Camp Bird

Hamlet

Camp Bird is a tiny unincorporated community in Ouray County, Colorado, United States. It lies between the present towns of Ouray and Telluride. Camp Bird is west of Thistledown and reached by CO Road 361. Camp Bird is situated 4½ miles southeast of Blaine Basin.

Thistledown

Hamlet

Thistledown is an unincorporated community in Ouray County, Colorado, United States. The community is located southwest of Ouray on Camp Bird Road between Ouray and Camp Bird. Thistledown is situated 5 miles east of Blaine Basin.

Tomboy

Locality

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Tomboy is a ghost town in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States. Tomboy was a mining town located 2 mi east of Telluride. At an elevation of 11,509 ft, Tomboy is one of the highest ghost towns in the United States. Tomboy is situated 6 miles south of Blaine Basin.

Blaine Basin

Type: Depression with an elevation of 10,781 feet
Category: landform
Location: Ouray, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.01805° or 38° 1′ 5″ north

Longitude

-107.78256° or 107° 46′ 57″ west

Elevation

10,781 feet (3,286 metres)

Open location code

85CJ2698+6X

GeoNames ID

5414214

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Blaine Mine and Ruby Trust Mine.

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