Mount Werner

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Mount Werner is a mountain in the Rocky Mountains in the Park Range in Colorado. It reaches a height of 10,568 ft (3,224 m) above sea level and has a base elevation of 6,900 ft (2103m). It has a vertical rise of 3,668 ft (1,121 m), Colorado's second highest. It has five peaks (from lowest to highest), Christie Peak, Thunderhead Peak, Sunshine Peak, Storm Peak, and Mt. Werner.

The Steamboat Ski Resort operates on 2,939 acres (11.89 km²) of the mountain. It is serviced by the Silver Bullet Gondola lift and several chairlifts. It regularly receives some of the highest levels of snow in Colorado. The most recent ten year snowfall average was 334 in (848 cm) a year. Much of the mountain and the resort are contained within the Routt National Forest.

Formerly known as Storm Mountain, it was renamed in honor of Buddy Werner, an Olympian from Steamboat Springs who was killed in an avalanche in Switzerland in April 1964.

Four miles west of Mt. Werner is Steamboat Springs, Colorado, the county seat of Routt County. It is 153 miles (246 km) from Denver.