Blue Lake Pass
Blue Lake Pass is a gap in Ouray, Colorado and has an elevation of 12,969 feet. Blue Lake Pass is situated nearby to the hamlet Camp Bird, as well as near the locality San Miguel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Sneffels and Gilpin Peak.
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.
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.
Dallas Peak
Peak
Dallas Peak is a high mountain summit in the Sneffels Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,815-foot thirteener is located in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness of Uncompahgre National Forest, 3.3 miles north by west of the Town of Telluride, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide between Ouray and San Miguel counties. Dallas Peak is situated 1½ miles southwest of Blue Lake Pass.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Camp Bird and Telluride.
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 4 miles southeast of Blue Lake Pass.
Telluride
Photo: John Fowler, CC BY 2.0.
Telluride is in the southern Rocky Mountains approximately 100 miles from Four Corners, the intersection of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. Telluride is home to the Telluride Ski Resort, and home of an independent film festival.
Pandora
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Pandora is an unincorporated community located 1.5 miles east of Telluride in San Miguel County, Colorado. Pandora was founded in the 1880s as a mill town, serving as the site for mills of the Smuggler-Union, Tomboy, and Sheridan mines. Pandora is situated 4½ miles south of Blue Lake Pass.
Blue Lake Pass
- Type: Gap with an elevation of 12,969 feet
- Category: landform
- Location: Ouray, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.99777° or 37° 59′ 52″ northLongitude
-107.79534° or 107° 47′ 43″ westElevation
12,969 feet (3,953 metres)Open location code
859JX6X3+4VGeoNames ID
5414358
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