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The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) [3] in straight-line distance from the northernmost part of western Canada, to New Mexico in the southwestern United States. Depending on differing definitions ...
The rocky cores of the mountain ranges are, in most places, formed of pieces of continental crust that are over one billion years old. In the south, an older mountain range was formed 300 million years ago, then eroded away. The rocks of that older range were reformed into the Rocky Mountains. The Rocky Mountains took shape during an intense ...
Most prominent summits. Of the 50 most prominent summits of the Rocky Mountains, only Mount Robson and Mount Elbert exceed 2500 meters (8202 feet) of topographic prominence, seven peaks exceed 2000 meters (6562 feet), 31 peaks are ultra-prominent summits with at least 1500 meters (4921 feet), and all 50 peaks exceed 1189 meters (3901 feet) of ...
Bears Paw Mountains. Beartooth Mountains. Big Belt Mountains. Big Sheep Mountains. Bighorn Mountains. Bitterroot Mountains. Bitterroot Range. Mount Bonneville. Boulder Mountains (Idaho)
Mount Lincoln is the highest peak of the Mosquito Range and the eighth-highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. Castle Peak is the highest peak of the Elk Mountains and the ninth-highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. Grays Peak is the highest peak of the Front Range and the tenth-highest peak of the Rocky Mountains.
Front Range. The Front Range is a mountain range of the Southern Rocky Mountains of North America located in the central portion of the U.S. State of Colorado, and southeastern portion of the U.S. State of Wyoming. [1] It is the first mountain range encountered as one goes westbound along the 40th parallel north across the Great Plains of North ...
Rocky Mountain National Park is a national park of the United States located approximately 55 mi (89 km) northwest of Denver [5] in north-central Colorado, within the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The park is situated between the towns of Estes Park to the east and Grand Lake to the west. The eastern and western slopes of the Continental ...
Yellowstone National Park, located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, though the park also extends into Montana and Idaho and its Mountains and Mountain Ranges are part of the Rocky Mountains. There are at least 70 named mountain peaks over 8,000 feet (2,400 m) in Yellowstone in four mountain ranges. Two of the ranges—The Washburn Range ...