Mount Sneffels
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 13,993 feet
- Description: mountain in Colorado, United States
- Also known as: “Mount Blaine”, “Mt. Sneffels”, and “Sneffels Peak”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gilpin Peak and Teakettle Mountain.
Gilpin Peak
Peak
Photo: Greg Willis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Teakettle Mountain
Peak
Dallas Peak
Peak
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Camp Bird and Telluride.
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.
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.
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. Pandora is situated 5 miles south of Mount Sneffels.
Mount Sneffels
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Ouray, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.00379° or 38° 0′ 14″ northLongitude
-107.79227° or 107° 47′ 32″ westElevation
13,993 feet (4,265 metres)Open location code
85CJ2635+G3OpenStreetMap ID
node 358931331OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Mount Sneffels” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Sneffels mendia”
- Cebuano: “Mount Sneffels”
- Czech: “Mount Sneffels”
- Dutch: “Mount Sneffels”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت سنيفيلس”
- Estonian: “Mount Sneffels”
- French: “mont Sneffels”
- French: “Mont Sneffels”
- German: “Mount Sneffels”
- Japanese: “スネフェルス山”
- Japanese: “スネフェルズ山”
- Ladin: “Mount Sneffels”
- Slovenian: “Mount Sneffels”
- Slovenian: “Mt. Sneffels”
- Spanish: “Monte Sneffels”
- Turkish: “Sneffels Yanardağı”
- Turkish: “Sneffels”
- Urdu: “ماؤنٹ سنیفلز”
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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 “Mount Sneffels”. Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.