Sunshine Mountain
Sunshine Mountain is a 12,930-foot-elevation mountain summit located in San Miguel County, in Colorado, United States. It is situated nine miles southwest of the community of Telluride, in the Lizard Head Wilderness, on land managed by Uncompahgre National Forest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lizard Head.
Lizard Head
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Lizard Head is a mountain summit in the San Miguel Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,119-foot is located in the Lizard Head Wilderness, 6.8 miles west by south of the town of Ophir, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide separating San Juan National Forest and Dolores County from Uncompahgre National Forest and San Miguel County.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ophir.
Ophir
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Ophir is a home rule municipality town governed by a general assembly and is located in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States. It is located two miles from the Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant, the world's first hydroelectric plant to supply alternating current electricity for an industrial purpose. Ophir is situated 6 miles east of Sunshine Mountain.
Sunshine Mountain
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 12,936 feet
- Description: mountain in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States of America
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: San Miguel, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.85833° or 37° 51′ 30″ northLongitude
-107.93394° or 107° 56′ 2″ westElevation
12,936 feet (3,943 metres)Open location code
859JV358+8COpenStreetMap ID
node 358923087OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Dutch—“Sunshine Mountain” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sunshine Mountain (bukid sa Estados Unidos, Colorado, San Miguel County)”
- Cebuano: “Sunshine Mountain”
- Dutch: “Sunshine Mountain”
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