Chicago Basin

Chicago Basin comprises the upper portion of the Needle Creek watershed in the Needle Mountains, a subrange of the San Juan Mountains in the US State of Colorado.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Eolus and Jupiter Mountain.

Mount Eolus

Peak

Photo: Evil.Satellite, Public domain.

Mount Eolus is a high mountain summit of the Needle Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,085-foot fourteener is located in the Weminuche Wilderness of San Juan National Forest, 27.4 miles northeast by north of the City of Durango in La Plata County, Colorado, United States.

Jupiter Mountain

Peak

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Jupiter Mountain is a high mountain summit in the Needle Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,836-foot thirteener is located in the Weminuche Wilderness of San Juan National Forest, 27.7 miles northeast by north of the City of Durango in La Plata County, Colorado, United States.

Windom Peak

Peak

Photo: Jeremiah LaRocco, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Windom Peak is the highest summit of the Needle Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 4,293.72-metre fourteener is located in the Weminuche Wilderness of San Juan National Forest, 28.2 miles northeast by north of the City of Durango in La Plata County, Colorado, United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Needleton.

Needleton

Hamlet

Photo: Robert Tadlock, CC BY 2.0.

Needleton is a ghost town in San Juan County, Colorado, United States. Its elevation is 8,277 feet. Needleton is situated 5 miles northwest of Chicago Basin.

Chicago Basin

Type: Depression with an elevation of 11,276 feet
Description: portion of the Needle Creek watershed in Colorado
Categories: basin and landform
Location: La Plata, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.60944° or 37° 36′ 34″ north

Longitude

-107.60923° or 107° 36′ 33″ west

Elevation

11,276 feet (3,437 metres)

Open location code

859JJ95R+Q8

GeoNames ID

5416858

Wikidata ID

Q5095498

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In Other Languages

“Chicago Basin” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Chicago Basin”

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