Tip Top Mine
Tip Top Mine is a quarry in Ouray, Colorado and has an elevation of 12,635 feet. Tip Top Mine is situated nearby to Gilpin Peak, as well as near the peak Mount Sneffels.- Type: Quarry
- Description: mine in Ouray County, Colorado, United States of America; geonames ID = 5441626
- Address: CO
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gilpin Peak and Mount Sneffels.
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.
Mount Sneffels
Peak
Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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. Mount Sneffels is situated 2½ miles north of Tip Top Mine.
Teakettle Mountain
Peak
Teakettle Mountain, elevation 13,825 ft, is a summit in the Sneffels Range of southwest Colorado. The peak is west of Ouray in the Uncompahgre National Forest. Teakettle Mountain is situated 2½ miles northeast of Tip Top Mine.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pandora and Tomboy.
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 2½ miles south of Tip Top Mine.
Tomboy
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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. Tomboy is situated 2½ miles southeast of Tip Top Mine.
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. Camp Bird is situated 3 miles east of Tip Top Mine.
Tip Top Mine
- Categories: mine and industry
- Location: Ouray, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.97222° or 37° 58′ 20″ northLongitude
-107.78173° or 107° 46′ 54″ westElevation
12,635 feet (3,851 metres)Open location code
859JX6C9+V8OpenStreetMap ID
node 369176725OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarry
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In Other Languages
“Tip Top Mine” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Tip Top Mine (minahan sa Estados Unidos, Colorado, Ouray County)”
- Cebuano: “Tip Top Mine”
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