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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In Other Languages
“Chicago Basin” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Chicago Basin”
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