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.

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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″ north

Longitude

-107.71191° or 107° 42′ 43″ west

Elevation

11,099 feet (3,383 metres)

Open location code

859JV7XQ+H6

OpenStreetMap ID

node 177741697

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=saddle

GeoNames ID

5436042

Wikidata ID

Q1644115

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Satellite Map

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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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