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The Maroon Bells are two peaks in the Elk Mountains, Maroon Peak and North Maroon Peak, separated by about half a kilometer (0.3 miles). [6] The mountains are on the border between Pitkin County and Gunnison County, Colorado , United States , about 19 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Aspen .
Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises nearly 3,400 feet (1,036 m) above West Maroon Valley in approximately one mile (1.61 km) and 1,900 feet (579 m) above Snowmass Creek in one-half mile (0.8 km). The Maroon Bells and Sleeping Sexton viewed from Maroon Lake is the most-photographed place in Colorado. [6]
Capitol Peak is a high and prominent mountain summit in the Elk Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.It is the 52nd highest mountain in North America. The 14,136.3-foot (4,309 m) fourteener is located in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness of White River National Forest, 8.7 miles (14.0 km) east by south (bearing 104°) of the community of Redstone in Pitkin County ...
The Maroon Bells–Snowmass Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in the Elk Mountains of central Colorado. The 181,535-acre (734.65 km 2 ) wilderness was established in 1980 in the Gunnison and White River national forests.
Ride operators at a Colorado amusement park failed to realize a 6-year-old was not properly buckled into her seat before she fell 110 feet to her death from the Haunted Mine Drop attraction, state ...
Pyramid Peak is a fourteen-thousand-foot mountain in the U.S. state of Colorado. It is the 47th highest mountain peak in Colorado, and 78th highest peak in the United States. It is located in the Elk Mountains in southeastern Pitkin County, approximately 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Aspen.
Pyramid Peak 14,025 ft (4,275 m), Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness, Elk Mountains Mount of the Holy Cross 14,011 ft (4,271 m), Holy Cross Wilderness , Sawatch Range The following two peaks are often included in lists of the Colorado fourteeners, but do not pass the 300 ft topographic prominence metric commonly used by U.S. Mountaineers:
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