Twin Lakes

Twin Lakes is in Chaffee, Colorado and has an elevation of 12,205 feet.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Emerald Peak and Mount Harvard.

Emerald Peak

Peak

Emerald Peak is a high mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,911-foot thirteener is located in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 14.7 miles west-northwest of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States.

Mount Harvard is the third highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado. The prominent 14,421-foot fourteener is the highest summit of the Collegiate Peaks and the fourth highest summit in the contiguous United States. Mount Harvard is situated 2½ miles east of Twin Lakes.

Missouri Mountain

Peak

Photo: jokermanj, CC BY 2.0.

Missouri Mountain is a high mountain summit in the Collegiate Peaks of the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,069.2-foot fourteener is located in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 15.2 miles northwest by west of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. Missouri Mountain is situated 2 miles northwest of Twin Lakes.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vicksburg.

Vicksburg

Hamlet

Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Vicksburg was a town and mining camp in Chaffee County, Colorado, high in Clear Creek Canyon. It is now effectively a ghost town, although some of the buildings may be seasonally occupied by their owners. Vicksburg is situated 6 miles north of Twin Lakes.

Twin Lakes

Type: Body of water
Location: Chaffee, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.91813° or 38° 55′ 5″ north

Longitude

-106.3625° or 106° 21′ 45″ west

Elevation

12,205 feet (3,720 metres)

Open location code

85CMWJ9Q+72

OpenStreetMap ID

way 46172953

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

GeoNames ID

5442274

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