Smelter Mountain is part of the La Plata Mountains range which is a subset of the Rocky Mountains of North America. It is located in the Bodo State Wildlife Area, 1.2 miles southwest of the community of Durango in La Plata County, Colorado, United States. Smelter Mountain is situated 2 miles east of Triangle Mine.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Durango and Hesperus.

Durango

Durango is the home rule city that is the county seat of and the most populous municipality of La Plata County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 19,071 at the 2020 United States census. Durango is the home of Fort Lewis College.

Hesperus

Hamlet

Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0.

Hesperus is an unincorporated community and a U.S. Post Office in La Plata County, Colorado, United States. The Hesperus Post Office has the ZIP Code 81326. Hesperus is situated 6 miles west of Triangle Mine.

Triangle Mine

Categories: mine and industry
Location: La Plata, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.2675° or 37° 16′ 3″ north

Longitude

-107.94007° or 107° 56′ 24″ west

Elevation

7,264 feet (2,214 metres)

Open location code

859J7395+2X

OpenStreetMap ID

node 369177309

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

GeoNames ID

5441969

Wikidata ID

Q49454869

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Cebuano: “Triangle Mine”

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