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The Town of Winter Park, Colorado has the highest elevation within the municipal boundaries of any town in the United States at 12,060 feet (3,676 m). The "Mile-High City" of Denver , the Colorado state capital, is only the 170th highest of the 273 Colorado municipalities.
The topographic isolation (or radius of dominance) of a summit measures how far the summit lies from its nearest point of equal elevation. [5] In the Rocky Mountains, 62 major summits exceed 4000 meters (13,123 feet) elevation, 137 exceed 3500 meters (11,483 feet), and the following 184 exceed 3000 meters (9843 feet) elevation.
The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic ... 10,879 ft: 1746 m 5,728 ft: 30.7 km ... Front Range: 4346 m 14,259 ft: 896 m
Of the 100 highest major summits of the Rocky Mountains, 62 peaks exceed 4000 meters (13,123 feet) elevation, and all 100 peaks exceed 3746 meters (12,290 feet) elevation. Of these 100 peaks, 78 (including the 30 highest) are located in Colorado, ten in Wyoming, six in New Mexico, three in Montana, and one each in Utah, British Columbia, and Idaho.
The elevation of a geographic area may be stated in several ways. These include: The maximum elevation of the area (high point); [a] The minimum elevation of the area (low point); [b] The arithmetic mean elevation of the area (statistical mean elevation); [c] The median elevation of the area (statistical 50% elevation); [d] and; The elevation ...
Front Range 13,397 ft 4083 m: 1,731 ft 528 m: 9.46 mi 15.22 km 11 Mount Richthofen [7] PB: Front Range 12,945 ft 3946 m: 2,680 ft 817 m: 9.66 mi 15.54 km 12 Specimen Mountain [7] PB: Front Range 12,494 ft 3808 m: 1,731 ft 528 m: 4.86 mi 7.82 km 13 Bison Peak NGS PB: Tarryall Mountains PB: 12,432 ft 3789 m: 2,451 ft 747 m: 19.14 mi 30.8 km 14 ...
Of the 100 highest major summits of the United States, only Denali exceeds 6000 meters (19,685 feet) elevation, four peaks exceed 5000 meters (16,404 feet), and all 100 peaks exceed 4012 meters (13,163 feet) 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. This is a complete list of the 53 fourteeners in the U.S. State of Colorado with at least 300 feet (91.44 meters) of topographic prominence .