American Peak
American Peak is a 13,806-foot-elevation mountain summit located in Hinsdale County, of southwest Colorado, United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jones Mountain and Handies Peak.
Jones Mountain
Peak
Jones Mountain is a high mountain summit in the San Juan Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,866-foot thirteener is located 9.6 miles northeast by east of the Town of Silverton, Colorado, United States, on the Continental Divide between Hinsdale and San Juan counties.
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 14,058-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.
Niagara Peak
Peak
Niagara Peak is a high mountain summit in the San Juan Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains System, in southwestern Colorado. The 13,812-foot thirteener is located 8.9 miles northeast by east of the Town of Silverton, on the Continental Divide between Hinsdale and San Juan counties.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eureka and Animas Forks.
Eureka
Hamlet
Photo: Plazak, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eureka is an extinct mining town in 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!
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.
Middleton
Hamlet
Middleton is an unincorporated community in San Juan County, Colorado, United States. Its elevation is 9,794 feet.
American Peak
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 13,793 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
37.89955° or 37° 53′ 58″ northLongitude
-107.51247° or 107° 30′ 45″ westElevation
13,793 feet (4,204 metres)Open location code
859JVFXQ+R2OpenStreetMap ID
node 358948212OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Hausa—“American Peak” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “American Peak (bukid sa Estados Unidos, Colorado)”
- Cebuano: “American Peak”
- Dutch: “American Peak”
- French: “American Peak”
- Hausa: “Ƙarshen Amurka”
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