Collegiate Peaks
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Collegiate Peaks | |
central Sawatch Range | |
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Mount Harvard is the highest of the Collegiate Peaks and the third highest peak of all the Rocky Mountains.
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Country | United States |
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State | Colorado |
Part of | Rocky Mountains |
Highest point | Mount Harvard |
- elevation | 14,427 ft (4,397 m) |
- coordinates | |
Length | 34 mi (55 km), W-E |
Width | 30 mi (48 km), N-S |
Area | 587 sq mi (1,520 km²) |
The Collegiate Peaks are a subrange of the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains located in central Colorado. The Collegiate Peaks include some of the highest mountains in the Rockies. The range is so named because several of the mountains are named for prominent universities.
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[edit] Prominent peaks
Rank | Mountain Peak | Elevation | Prominence | Isolation |
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1 | Mount Harvard NGS | 4397 m |
14,427 feet709 m |
2,327 feet24.0 km |
14.9 miles
2 | La Plata Peak[1] | 4379 m |
14,368 feet561 m |
1,841 feet10.1 km |
6.3 miles
3 | Mount Belford NGS | 4329 m |
14,204 feet401 m |
1,317 feet5.3 km |
3.3 miles
4 | Mount Princeton NGS | 4329 m |
14,204 feet664 m |
2,177 feet8.4 km |
5.2 miles
5 | Mount Yale NGS | 4329 m |
14,202 feet572 m |
1,876 feet8.9 km |
5.5 miles
6 | Mount Oxford NGS | 4316 m |
14,160 feet193 m |
633 feet2.0 km |
1.2 miles
7 | Mount Columbia NGS | 4291 m |
14,079 feet266 m |
873 feet3.1 km |
1.9 miles
8 | Missouri Mountain NGS | 4290 m |
14,074 feet252 m |
827 feet2.1 km |
1.3 miles
9 | Huron Peak NGS | 4271 m |
14,012 feet428 m |
1,403 feet5.2 km |
3.2 miles
10 | Grizzly Peak NGS | 4266 m |
13,995 feet582 m |
1,908 feet10.9 km |
6.8 miles
11 | Ice Mountain[1] PB | 4254 m |
13,958 feet302 m |
991 feet3.4 km |
2.1 miles
12 | Mount Hope[1] PB | 4249 m |
13,939 feet260 m |
853 feet4.7 km |
2.9 miles
13 | Emerald Peak[1] PB | 4240 m |
13,911 feet166 m |
544 feet2.1 km |
1.3 miles
14 | North Apostle[1] PB | 4220 m |
13,847 feet110 m |
360 feet0.6 km |
0.4 miles
15 | Rinker Peak[1] PB | 4203 m |
13,789 feet275 m |
903 feet2.5 km |
1.5 miles
16 | Peak 13,762[1] PB | 4197 m |
13,769 feet251 m |
822 feet2.7 km |
1.7 miles
17 | Garfield Peak[1] PB | 4196 m |
13,767 feet104 m |
340 feet1.3 km |
0.8 miles
18 | Sayres Benchmark NGS PB | 4189 m |
13,745 feet292 m |
958 feet3.1 km |
1.9 miles
[edit] See also
- Collegiate Peaks Wilderness
- Sawatch Range
- Geography of Colorado
- Mountain peaks of Colorado
- Mountain ranges of Colorado
- Rocky Mountains
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g h The elevation of this summit has been converted from the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). National Geodetic Survey