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The San Juan Mountains in southern Colorado. The San Juan Mountains is a high and rugged mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico. The area is highly mineralized (the Colorado Mineral Belt) and figured in the gold and silver mining industry of early Colorado.
Red Mountain Pass elevation 11,018 ft (3,358 m) is a mountain pass in the San Juan Mountains of western Colorado in the United States. The pass straddles a divide that separates Ouray and San Juan counties. The pass is named for the nearby Red Mountain on the northeast side of the pass. The name is derived from the iron oxide laden rock that ...
It is the fifth-smallest county in Colorado by area. The county is located in the heart of the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. Though it has the highest mean elevation of any county in the United States, at 11,240 feet (3,430 m), none of Colorado's 53 fourteeners (mountains at least 14,000 feet in elevation) are in San Juan County. [11]
Ouray, Colorado San Juan mountains sign for Switzerland of America overlook look out point. As the highway curlicues down to Ouray, it passes through a tunnel blasted through solid rock, skirts ...
The San Juan Mountains — a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains System, located in southwestern Colorado. Pages in category "San Juan Mountains (Colorado)" The following 176 pages are in this category, out of 176 total.
View of San Juan Mountains from the San Juan Skyway. Starting in Durango, Colorado, the largest city on San Juan Skyway, the byway follows U.S. Highway 160 (US 160) west through the town of Mancos to Cortez passing the entrance to Mesa Verde National Park.
Grizzly Peak is set 17 miles (27 km) west of the Continental Divide in the San Juan Mountains which are a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. [5] The peak is located 33 miles (53 km) north of Durango and 4.35 miles (7.00 km) northwest of Engineer Mountain, on land managed by San Juan National Forest. [5]
Uncompahgre Peak (/ ən k əm ˈ p ɑː ɡ r eɪ / ⓘ) is the sixth highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado.The prominent 14,316-foot (4363.46 m) fourteener is the highest summit of the San Juan Mountains and the highest point in the drainage basin of the Colorado River and the Gulf of California.