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Storm King Mountain is a mountain in the White River National Forest of the Rocky Mountains, 5 miles (8.0 km) northwest of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, in northeastern Garfield County. It is on the north side of the Colorado River and Interstate 70 (I-70), between Glenwood Springs and New Castle .A ski lift at the Copper Mountain Ski Resort is ...
The South Canyon Fire was a 1994 wildfire that took the lives of 14 wildland firefighters on Storm King Mountain, near Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on July 6, 1994. It is often also referred to as the "Storm King" fire. It was the subject of John Maclean's book Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire.
The Grand Hogback is a 70-mile long, [2] curving, spine-like ridge in Western Colorado that extends from near McClure Pass in Pitkin County through Garfield County and then to near Meeker in Rio Blanco County. [3]
Mountain type Volcanic plug or hypabyssal plug Huerfano Butte ( / ˈ w ɛər f ə n oʊ / ; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈweɾfano] ) is a volcanic plug [ 5 ] or hypabyssal plug [ 6 ] located 8.8 miles (14.1 km) north of Walsenburg in Huerfano County , Colorado , United States .
A major storm dumped heavy snow in Colorado on Thursday – forcing flight cancellations and shutting down a highway that connects Denver to Colorado ski resorts. The storm, which began Wednesday ...
According to the Colorado SNOTEL map maintained by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, the San Miguel-Dolores-Animas-San Juan rivers basin in southwest ...
Mount Wilson is the highest summit of the San Miguel Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.The prominent 14,254.1-foot (4,345 m) fourteener is located in the Lizard Head Wilderness of San Juan National Forest, 10.6 miles (17.1 km) north by east (bearing 12°) of the Town of Rico in Dolores County, Colorado, United States.
The Wet Mountains are a small mountain range in southern Colorado, named for the amount of snow they receive in the winter as compared to the dry Great Plains to the east. They are a sub-range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains , in the southern Rocky Mountains System.