Cirque Mountain
Cirque Mountain is a 13,686-foot-elevation mountain summit located in Ouray County of southwest Colorado, United States. It is situated six miles west of the community of Ouray, above the north side of Yankee Boy Basin, on land managed by Uncompahgre National Forest.Places of Interest
Highlights include Teakettle Mountain and Mount Sneffels.
Teakettle Mountain
Peak
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tomboy
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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 4½ miles south of Cirque Mountain.
Cirque Mountain
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 13,698 feet
- Description: mountain in Colorado, United States of America
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Ouray, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.00388° or 38° 0′ 14″ northLongitude
-107.77173° or 107° 46′ 18″ westElevation
13,698 feet (4,175 metres)Open location code
85CJ263H+H8OpenStreetMap ID
node 358924324OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Hausa—“Cirque Mountain” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cirque Mountain (bukid sa Estados Unidos, Colorado)”
- Cebuano: “Cirque Mountain”
- Dutch: “Cirque Mountain”
- Hausa: “Cirque Mountain (Colorado)”
- Hausa: “Cirque Mountain”
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