Red Mountain Pass
Red Mountain Pass is a mountain pass in the San Juan Mountains of western Colorado in the United States. The pass straddles a divide that separates Ouray and San Juan counties.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ironton and Tomboy.
Ironton
Hamlet
Photo: John Fowler, CC BY 2.0.
Ironton is an extinct town located in Ouray County, Colorado, United States. It lay south of the present town of Ouray, adjacent to the sites Guston and Red Mountain Town, fellow ghost towns.
Tomboy
Locality
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Tomboy is a ghost town in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States. Tomboy was a mining town located 2 mi east of Telluride. At an elevation of 11,509 ft, Tomboy is one of the highest ghost towns in the United States.
Pandora
Hamlet
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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. Pandora is situated 4½ miles northwest of Red Mountain Pass.
Red Mountain Pass
- Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 11,099 feet
- Description: Mountain pass in the United States
- Categories: mountain pass and landform
- Location: Ouray, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.89892° or 37° 53′ 56″ northLongitude
-107.71191° or 107° 42′ 43″ westElevation
11,099 feet (3,383 metres)Open location code
859JV7XQ+H6OpenStreetMap ID
node 177741697OpenStreetMap feature
natural=saddle
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Japanese—“Red Mountain Pass” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Red Mountain Pass”
- Dutch: “Red Mountain Pass”
- French: “col Red Mountain”
- French: “Col Red Mountain”
- German: “Red Mountain Pass”
- Japanese: “レッドマウンテンパス”
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