Taylor Glacier

Taylor Glacier is a small cirque glacier in Rocky Mountain National Park in the U.S. state of Colorado. Taylor Glacier is on the east side of the Continental Divide and adjacent to Taylor Peak.

Type: Glacier with an elevation of 11,844 feet
Description: glacier in Colorado, United States
Also known as: “Taylor Glacier (Colorado)”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rocky Mountain National Park and Taylor Peak.

Rocky Mountain National Park

Photo: K.lee, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Rocky Mountain National Park is a national park in the Front Range region of the state of Colorado. The park's borders lie within three counties, Larimer, Boulder, and Grand, and it is surrounded by Roosevelt, Arapaho, and Routt National Forests.

Taylor Peak

Peak

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Taylor Peak, elevation 13,158 ft, is a summit in the Front Range of north central Colorado. The peak is in Rocky Mountain National Park at the head of Loch Vale and just north of Taylor Glacier.

Powell Peak

Peak

Photo: Thomson200, CC0.

Powell Peak is a summit in Grand County, Colorado, in the United States. With an elevation of 13,176 feet, Powell Peak is the 493rd-highest summit in the state of Colorado.

Taylor Glacier

Categories: glacial cirque and landform
Location: Larimer, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.27175° or 40° 16′ 18″ north

Longitude

-105.67697° or 105° 40′ 37″ west

Elevation

11,844 feet (3,610 metres)

Open location code

85GP78CF+P6

OpenStreetMap ID

way 40198913

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=glacier

GeoNames ID

5582653

Wikidata ID

Q7689978

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Taylor Glacier” goes by many names.

Hebrew: “קרחון טיילור”

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