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.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Lizard Head.

Lizard Head

Peak

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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

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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
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Latitude

37.85833° or 37° 51′ 30″ north

Longitude

-107.93394° or 107° 56′ 2″ west

Elevation

12,936 feet (3,943 metres)

Open location code

859JV358+8C

OpenStreetMap ID

node 358923087

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

5440827

Wikidata ID

Q49080276

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Satellite Map

Discover Sunshine Mountain from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

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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