Gilpin Peak
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.Photo: Greg Willis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Sneffels and Dallas Peak.
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.
Dallas Peak
Peak
Dallas Peak is a high mountain summit in the Sneffels Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,815-foot thirteener is located in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness of Uncompahgre National Forest, 3.3 miles north by west of the Town of Telluride, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide between Ouray and San Miguel counties.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Telluride and Camp Bird.
Telluride
Photo: John Fowler, CC BY 2.0.
Telluride is in the southern Rocky Mountains approximately 100 miles from Four Corners, the intersection of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. Telluride is home to the Telluride Ski Resort, and home of an independent film festival.
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.
Pandora
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Pandora is an unincorporated community located 1.5 miles east of Telluride in San Miguel County, Colorado. Pandora was founded in the 1880s as a mill town, serving as the site for mills of the Smuggler-Union, Tomboy, and Sheridan mines.
Gilpin Peak
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 13,655 feet
- Description: mountain in United States of America
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: San Miguel, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.98666° or 37° 59′ 12″ northLongitude
-107.79312° or 107° 47′ 35″ westElevation
13,655 feet (4,162 metres)Open location code
859JX6P4+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 358922856OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Gilpin Peak” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Gilpin Peak”
- Dutch: “Gilpin Peak”
- Ladin: “Gilpin Peak”
- Urdu: “گلپن پیک”
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