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The Weminuche Wilderness is a wilderness area in southwest Colorado managed by the United States Forest Service as part of the San Juan National Forest on the west side of the Continental Divide and the Rio Grande National Forest on the east side of the divide. The Weminuche Wilderness was designated by Congress in 1975, and expanded by the ...
Emerald Lake is an alpine lake in Hinsdale County, Colorado, located in the Weminuche Wilderness of the San Juan National Forest near the Continental Divide. [1] [2] The Lake can be accessed by the Lake Fork trail #528. [3] The lake is stocked with salmon. [4]
The forest contains two alpine wilderness areas; the Weminuche and South San Juan, as well as the Piedra Area. The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad passes through the National Forest . The name of the forest comes from the San Juan River , which was originally called the Rio San Juan, after Saint John the Baptist (San Juan Bautista ...
Thunder Mountain is situated in the Needle Mountains, which are a subrange of the San Juan Mountains.The mountain is located 30 miles (48 km) northeast of the community of Durango and set within the Weminuche Wilderness on land managed by San Juan National Forest.
The Needle Mountains are a subrange of the San Juan Mountains of the Rocky Mountains located in the southwestern part of the U.S. State of Colorado.Much of the range is protected in the Weminuche Wilderness of the San Juan National Forest.
Cimarrona Peak, elevation 12,570 feet (3,830 meters), is a summit in the San Juan Mountains in Hinsdale County, Colorado, four miles (6.4 kilometers) north of Williams Creek Reservoir. [1] The mountain lies in the Weminuche Wilderness and the San Juan National Forest.
A map of the Colorado Plateau. ... The Colorado Plateau is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, ... Weminuche Wilderness;
Turret Peak is a high peak of the Needle Mountains, a subrange of the San Juan Mountains in the southwestern part of the US State of Colorado. It rises on the east side of the Animas River, 0.5 miles (0.80 km) southeast of Pigeon Peak. It is located in the Weminuche Wilderness, part of the San Juan National Forest.