Whitecross Mountain

Whitecross Mountain is a 13,553-foot-elevation summit in Hinsdale County, Colorado, United States. Whitecross Mountain has an elevation of 13,491 feet.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Handies Peak.

Handies Peak

Peak

Photo: Mitchtobin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Handies Peak is a high and prominent mountain summit of the San Juan Mountains range in the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,056-foot fourteener is located in the Bureau of Land Management Handies Peak Wilderness Study Area, 13.4 miles southwest by west of the Town of Lake City in Hinsdale County, Colorado, United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Animas Forks and Eureka.

Animas Forks

Locality

Photo: Kimon Berlin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Animas Forks is an extinct mining town located 12 miles northeast of Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado, United States. The area is managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

Eureka

Hamlet

Photo: Plazak, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Eureka is an extinct mining town in northeastern San Juan County, Colorado, United States, along the Animas River, between Silverton and Animas Forks. The town derives its name from the Greek interjection Eureka! Eureka is situated 5 miles southwest of Whitecross Mountain.

Capitol City

Locality

Photo: robert thigpen, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Capitol City is an extinct silver mining town located in Hinsdale County, Colorado, United States. Founded as Galena City in 1877, the townsite is located on the Alpine Loop National Scenic Back Country Byway. Capitol City is situated 6 miles north of Whitecross Mountain.

Whitecross Mountain

Type: Peak with an elevation of 13,491 feet
Description: mountain in Colorado, United States of America
Categories: mountain and landform
Location: Hinsdale, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.93055° or 37° 55′ 50″ north

Longitude

-107.49311° or 107° 29′ 35″ west

Elevation

13,491 feet (4,112 metres)

Open location code

859JWGJ4+6Q

OpenStreetMap ID

node 358923045

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

5444068

Wikidata ID

Q49089577

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Dutch—“Whitecross Mountain” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Whitecross Mountain”
Dutch: “Whitecross Mountain”

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