Handies Peak
Handies Peak is a high and prominent mountain summit of the San Juan Mountains range in the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,058-foot fourteener is located in the Bureau of Land Management Handies Peak Wilderness Study Area, 13.4 miles southwest by west of the Town of Lake City in Hinsdale County, Colorado, United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mitchtobin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jones Mountain and Niagara Peak.
Jones Mountain
Peak
Jones Mountain is a high mountain summit in the San Juan Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,866-foot thirteener is located 9.6 miles northeast by east of the Town of Silverton, Colorado, United States, on the Continental Divide between Hinsdale and San Juan counties.
Niagara Peak
Peak
Niagara Peak is a high mountain summit in the San Juan Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains System, in southwestern Colorado. The 13,812-foot thirteener is located 8.9 miles northeast by east of the Town of Silverton, on the Continental Divide between Hinsdale and San Juan counties.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Animas Forks and Eureka.
Animas Forks
Locality
Photo: Kimon Berlin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Animas Forks is an extinct mining town located 12 miles northeast of Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado, United States. The area is managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
Eureka
Hamlet
Photo: Plazak, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eureka is an extinct mining town in northeastern San Juan County, Colorado, United States, along the Animas River, between Silverton and Animas Forks. The town derives its name from the Greek interjection Eureka!
Middleton
Hamlet
Middleton is an unincorporated community in San Juan County, Colorado, United States. Its elevation is 9,794 feet. Middleton is situated 5 miles southwest of Handies Peak.
Handies Peak
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 14,052 feet
- Description: mountain in United States of America
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Hinsdale, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.91299° or 37° 54′ 47″ northLongitude
-107.50445° or 107° 30′ 16″ westElevation
14,052 feet (4,283 metres)Open location code
859JWF7W+56OpenStreetMap ID
node 358923027OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Handies Peak” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Handies Peak”
- Czech: “Handies Peak”
- Dutch: “Handies Peak”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل هانديس پياك”
- French: “pic Handies”
- French: “Pic Handies”
- Ladin: “Handies Peak”
- Urdu: “ہینڈیز پیک”
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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 “Handies Peak”. Photo: Mitchtobin, CC BY-SA 4.0.