Crest House
The Mount Evans Crest House is a building, now in ruins, located at the summit of Mount Blue Sky in Colorado. It is notable for both its significant architectural design and its unusual location.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ken Gallager, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mount Evans and Meyer–Womble Observatory.
Mount Evans
Peak
Photo: Lookinhere, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Blue Sky is the highest peak in the Mount Evans Wilderness in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 14,266.1-foot fourteener is located 13.4 miles southwest by south of Idaho Springs in Clear Creek County, Colorado…
Meyer–Womble Observatory
Building
Meyer–Womble Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of Denver. It is located near the summit of Mount Blue Sky in the Arapaho National Forest approximately 60 kilometers west of Denver, Colorado.
Summit Lake Park
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Summit Lake Park is a park located along Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway about 64 miles west of Denver, Colorado. The park is 160 acres in size and contains alpine tundra.
Crest House
- Type: Building
- Description: building, now in ruins, at the summit of Mount Evans in Colorado
- Category: architectural structure
- Location: Clear Creek, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.58749° or 39° 35′ 15″ northLongitude
-105.64185° or 105° 38′ 31″ westOpen location code
85FPH9P5+X7OpenStreetMap ID
way 170594498OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q5184547
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Crest House”. Photo: Ken Gallager, Public domain.