Rock Glacier

Rock Glacier is in Ouray, Colorado. Rock Glacier is situated nearby to the quarry Camp Bird Number 3 Level, as well as near Chicago Tunnel.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Imogene Pass.

Imogene Pass

Mountain saddle

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Imogene Pass is a 13,114 ft high mountain pass in the San Juan Mountains in the southwest part of the US state of Colorado. It crosses a ridge connecting Ouray, Colorado with Telluride, Colorado, and is the highest mountain pass in the San Juan Mountains, and the second highest vehicular mountain crossing in Colorado.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tomboy and Camp Bird.

Tomboy

Locality

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Tomboy is a ghost town in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States. Tomboy was a mining town located 2 mi east of Telluride. At an elevation of 11,509 ft, Tomboy is one of the highest ghost towns in the United States.

Camp Bird

Hamlet

Camp Bird is a tiny unincorporated community in Ouray County, Colorado, United States. It lies between the present towns of Ouray and Telluride. Camp Bird is west of Thistledown and reached by CO Road 361. Camp Bird is situated 2 miles north of Rock Glacier.

Pandora

Hamlet

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Pandora is an unincorporated community located 1.5 miles east of Telluride in San Miguel County, Colorado. Pandora was founded in the 1880s as a mill town, serving as the site for mills of the Smuggler-Union, Tomboy, and Sheridan mines. Pandora is situated 3 miles west of Rock Glacier.

Rock Glacier

Type: Scree
Category: landform
Location: Ouray, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.94474° or 37° 56′ 41″ north

Longitude

-107.73375° or 107° 44′ 2″ west

Open location code

859JW7V8+VG

OpenStreetMap ID

way 935638556

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=scree

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