Sunlight Lake

Sunlight Lake is a lake in La Plata, Colorado and has an elevation of 12,037 feet.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sunlight Peak and Windom Peak.

Sunlight Peak

Peak

Photo: Evil.Satellite, Public domain.

Sunlight Peak is a high mountain summit of the Needle Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,059.0-foot fourteener is located in the Weminuche Wilderness of San Juan National Forest, 28.5 miles northeast by north of the City of Durango in La Plata County, Colorado, United States.

Windom Peak

Peak

Photo: Jeremiah LaRocco, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Windom Peak is the highest summit of the Needle Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 4,293.72-metre fourteener is located in the Weminuche Wilderness of San Juan National Forest, 28.2 miles northeast by north of the City of Durango in La Plata County, Colorado, United States.

Jupiter Mountain

Peak

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Jupiter Mountain is a high mountain summit in the Needle Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,836-foot thirteener is located in the Weminuche Wilderness of San Juan National Forest, 27.7 miles northeast by north of the City of Durango in La Plata County, Colorado, United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Needleton.

Needleton

Hamlet

Photo: Robert Tadlock, CC BY 2.0.

Needleton is a ghost town in San Juan County, Colorado, United States. Its elevation is 8,277 feet. Needleton is situated 6 miles west of Sunlight Lake.

Sunlight Lake

Type: Lake
Category: body of water
Location: La Plata, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.63313° or 37° 37′ 59″ north

Longitude

-107.58223° or 107° 34′ 56″ west

Elevation

12,037 feet (3,669 metres)

Open location code

859JJCM9+74

OpenStreetMap ID

way 251118533

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=lake

GeoNames ID

5440759

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