French Pass

French Pass is a mountain saddle in Summit, Colorado and has an elevation of 12,051 feet. French Pass is situated nearby to the locality Lincoln.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bald Mountain and Mount Guyot.

Bald Mountain

Peak

Photo: Thomson200, CC0.

Bald Mountain is a high and prominent mountain summit in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,690-foot thirteener is located in Arapaho National Forest, 5.5 miles southeast of the Town of Breckenridge in Summit County, Colorado, United States.

Mount Guyot is a high mountain summit in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,376-foot thirteener is located 6.3 miles east-southeast of the Town of Breckenridge, Colorado, United States, on the Continental Divide separating Pike National Forest and Park County from Arapaho National Forest and Summit County.

Boreas Pass

Mountain saddle

Photo: Randallm1, Public domain.

Boreas Pass is a high mountain pass in central Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States. The pass is located on the continental divide, at the crest of the Front Range along the border between Park and Summit counties.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Blue River and Breckenridge.

Blue River

Village

Photo: Adam Baker, CC BY 2.0.

Blue River is a statutory town located along the Blue River in Summit County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 877 at the 2020 United States census. The town is located in the Blue River Valley along Colorado State Highway 9. Blue River is situated 5 miles west of French Pass.

Breckenridge

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

Breckenridge is a ski resort and town at the northern tip of the south central region of Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains of the United States of America.

French Pass

Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 12,051 feet
Category: landform
Location: Summit, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.4393° or 39° 26′ 22″ north

Longitude

-105.95148° or 105° 57′ 5″ west

Elevation

12,051 feet (3,673 metres)

Open location code

85FPC2QX+PC

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1153557631

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=saddle

GeoNames ID

5422475

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