Collegiate Peaks
The Collegiate Peaks is a name given to a section of the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains located in central Colorado. Drainages to the east include headwaters of the Arkansas River.Photo: Landshark99, Public domain.
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 14,249 feet
- Description: section of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, US
- Also known as: “Collegiate Range”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Harvard and Mount Columbia.
Mount Harvard
Peak
Mount Harvard is the third highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado. The prominent 14,421-foot fourteener is the highest summit of the Collegiate Peaks and the fourth highest summit in the contiguous United States.
Mount Columbia
Peak
Photo: David Herrera, CC BY 2.0.
Mount Columbia is a high mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,072.6-foot fourteener is located in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 9.9 miles northwest by west of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. Mount Columbia is situated 2 miles southeast of Collegiate Peaks.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vicksburg.
Vicksburg
Hamlet
Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vicksburg was a town and mining camp in Chaffee County, Colorado, high in Clear Creek Canyon. It is now effectively a ghost town, although some of the buildings may be seasonally occupied by their owners. Vicksburg is situated 6 miles northwest of Collegiate Peaks.
Collegiate Peaks
- Category: landform
- Location: Chaffee, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Slovenian—“Collegiate Peaks” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Collegiate Peaks”
- Chinese: “大学生峰”
- Chinese: “大學生峰”
- Dutch: “Collegiate Peaks”
- French: “pics Collegiate”
- French: “Pics Collegiate”
- Ladin: “Collegiate Peaks”
- Slovenian: “Collegiate Peaks”
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