Mount Evans
Mount Blue Sky is the highest peak in the Mount Evans Wilderness in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 14,266.1-foot fourteener is located 13.4 miles southwest by south of Idaho Springs in Clear Creek County, Colorado…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 14,249 feet
- Description: mountain in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States
- Also known as: “Mount Blue Sky”, “Mount Rosalie”, “Mt. Evans”, and “Rosa Mountain”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Crest House and Meyer–Womble Observatory.
Crest House
Building
Photo: Ken Gallager, Public domain.
The Mount Evans Crest House is a building, now in ruins, located at the summit of Mount Blue Sky in Colorado. It is notable for both its significant architectural design and its unusual location.
Meyer–Womble Observatory
Building
Meyer–Womble Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of Denver. It is located near the summit of Mount Blue Sky in the Arapaho National Forest approximately 60 kilometers west of Denver, Colorado.
Summit Lake Park
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Summit Lake Park is a park located along Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway about 64 miles west of Denver, Colorado. The park is 160 acres in size and contains alpine tundra.
Mount Evans
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Clear Creek, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.58835° or 39° 35′ 18″ northLongitude
-105.6437° or 105° 38′ 37″ westElevation
14,249 feet (4,343 metres)Open location code
85FPH9Q4+8GOpenStreetMap ID
node 358945044OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Mount Evans” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Mount Blue Sky”
- Basque: “Mount Evans”
- Bengali: “এভান্স পর্বতশৃঙ্গ”
- Bengali: “মাউন্ট এভান্স”
- Cebuano: “Mount Blue Sky”
- Cebuano: “Mount Evans”
- Chinese: “伊凡斯山”
- Chinese: “埃文斯山”
- Czech: “Mount Blue Sky”
- Czech: “Mount Evans”
- Dutch: “Mount Blue Sky”
- Dutch: “Mount Evans”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت ايڤانس”
- French: “mont Blue Sky”
- French: “Mont Blue Sky”
- French: “Mont Evans”
- French: “Mount Evans”
- German: “Mount Blue Sky”
- German: “Mount Evans”
- Japanese: “エヴァンズ山”
- Ladin: “Mount Blue Sky”
- Ladin: “Mount Evans”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Blue Sky”
- Persian: “کوه بلو اسکای”
- Polish: “Mount Blue Sky”
- Russian: “Блу-Скай”
- Russian: “Эванс”
- Slovenian: “Mount Blue Sky”
- Spanish: “Monte Evans”
- Spanish: “Mount Blue Sky”
- Spanish: “Mount Evans”
- Urdu: “ماؤنٹ ایونز”
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Highlights include Mount Blue Sky Summit Trailhead and Mount Blue Sky Summit.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Evans”. Photo: Lookinhere, CC BY-SA 3.0.