Crestone Needle
Crestone Needle is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,194.8-foot fourteener is located 6.9 miles east-southeast of the Town of Crestone in Saguache County, Colorado, United States.Photo: Meniscus, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Crestone Peak and Humboldt Peak.
Crestone Peak
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Crestone Peak is the seventh-highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado. The prominent 14,296.8-foot fourteener is the highest summit of the Crestones and the second-highest summit in the Sangre de Cristo Range after Blanca Peak.
Humboldt Peak
Peak
Photo: Meniscus, Public domain.
Humboldt Peak is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,066.6-foot fourteener is located in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 11.9 miles south-southwest of the Town of Westcliffe in Custer County, Colorado, United States.
Kit Carson Mountain
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Kit Carson Peak, officially known as the Kit Carson Mountain, is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.
Crestone Needle
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 14,167 feet
- Description: Fourteener and twentieth highest mountain in the US state of Colorado (14,203‘)
- Categories: mountain, climbing area, and landform
- Location: Saguache, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.96472° or 37° 57′ 53″ northLongitude
-105.57668° or 105° 34′ 36″ westElevation
14,167 feet (4,318 metres)Open location code
859PXC7F+V8OpenStreetMap ID
node 358944415OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Crestone Needle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Crestone Needle”
- Czech: “Crestone Needle”
- Dutch: “Crestone Needle”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كريستون نيدل”
- French: “aiguille Crestone”
- French: “Aiguille Crestone”
- Hausa: “Ƙarƙashin ƙanƙara”
- Ladin: “Crestone Needle”
- Polish: “Crestone Needle”
- Urdu: “کریسٹون نیڈل”
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