Kit Carson Mountain
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 14,173 feet
- Description: Fourteener and twenty-third highest mountain in the US state of Colorado (14,171‘).
- Also known as: “Frustum Peak”, “Haystack Baldy”, and “Kit Carson Peak”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Challenger Point and Columbia Point.
Challenger Point
Peak
Photo: Fredlyfish4, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Challenger Point is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,087-foot fourteener is located 5.0 miles east by south of the Town of Crestone in Saguache County, Colorado, United States.
Columbia Point
Peak
Photo: Leahcim506, Public domain.
Columbia Point is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,986-foot thirteener is located 5.5 miles east by south of the Town of Crestone in Saguache County, Colorado, United States.
Willow Lake
Photo: Fredlyfish4, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Willow Lake, also known as the lower Willow Creek Lake, is an alpine lake in Saguache County, Colorado, United States, located in the Sangre de Cristo Range within the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness in Rio Grande National Forest.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Crestone.
Crestone
Photo: Fred Bauder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Crestone is a town with about 75 permanent residents, located in the south central region of Colorado. It lies at the foot of the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo Range in the northern part of the San Luis Valley.
Kit Carson Mountain
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Saguache, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.97972° or 37° 58′ 47″ northLongitude
-105.60251° or 105° 36′ 9″ westElevation
14,173 feet (4,320 metres)Open location code
859PX9HW+VXOpenStreetMap ID
node 358945056OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Urdu—“Kit Carson Mountain” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Kit Carson Mountain”
- Dutch: “Kit Carson Peak”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كيت كارسون پياك”
- French: “Kit Carson Peak”
- French: “pic Kit Carson”
- French: “Pic Kit Carson”
- Ladin: “Kit Carson Peak”
- Polish: “Kit Carson Peak”
- Urdu: “کٹ کارسن پیک”
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