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Pikes Peak is the highest summit of the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in North America.The ultra-prominent 14,107-foot (4,299.83 m) fourteener is located in Pike National Forest, 12 miles (19 km) west of downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Mount Elbert in the Sawatch Range is the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains and the highest point in the U.S. state of Colorado.. The following sortable table comprises the 117 highest mountain peaks of the U.S. State of Colorado with at least 3000 meters (9843 feet) of elevation and at least 500 meters (1640 feet) of topographic prominence.
The 100 most topographically prominent Colorado summits; Rank Mountain Peak Mountain Range Elevation Prominence Isolation Location; 1 Mount Elbert [1] [2] [3] [a] Sawatch Range: 14,440 ft 4401.2 m: 9,093 ft 2772 m: 671 mi 1,079 km 2 Pikes Peak [4] [5] [6] [b] Front Range
This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] in Colorado. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. [b] [c] The first table below ranks the 55 highest major summits of Colorado by elevation.
An enlargeable satellite photograph of the portion of the Rocky Mountains within the State of Colorado. ... If an elevation or prominence is ... Pikes Peak [89] [90 ...
The northernmost summit with at least 3000 metres elevation and 500 metres prominence is Hess Mountain in ... Pikes Peak [27] [aq] Colorado: Front Range: 14,115 ft ...
Cripple Creek is about 3.6 miles southwest of Pikes Peak. Tornado damage to a home near Cripple Creek, Colorado after an EF1 tor Rare high-elevation tornado confirmed at Pikes Peak in the Rockies
This is a list of mountain peaks in the U.S. State of Colorado that exceed 14,000 feet (4267.2 meters) of elevation. In the mountaineering parlance of the Western United States , a fourteener is a mountain peak with an elevation of at least 14,000 feet.