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Parry Peak, elevation 13,397 ft (4,083 m), is a summit in the Front Range of central Colorado. The peak is on the continental divide southeast of Winter Park in the Arapaho National Forest . The name honors Charles Christopher Parry , a botanist who made extensive studies of the Colorado mountain flora in the 1860s.
Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 3,740 feet (1,140 m) above Lake Creek in 1.5 miles (2.4 km). The highest peak in Colorado, Mount Elbert , is 4.97 miles (8.00 km) to the north and line parent Rinker Peak is 0.62 mile to the southwest. [ 3 ]
The wilderness area encompasses 17,015 acres (69 km 2) immediately east of the Continental Divide in Gilpin County and Clear Creek County. The wilderness is named after its second tallest mountain, 13,294-foot (4,052 m) James Peak. Within its boundaries are 30 miles (48 km) of trails.
Mount Bancroft is a 13,250 feet (4,040 m) peak in Grand and Clear Creek counties. [1] It is located west of the town of Empire, [1] within a group of mountain peaks called the James Group that also includes Mount Flora, Mount Eva, Parry Peak, James Peak, and Colorado Mines Peak.
The Sawatch Range / s ə ˈ w ɑː tʃ / or Saguache Range [1] [2] [3] is a high and extensive mountain range in central Colorado which includes eight of the twenty highest peaks in the Rocky Mountains, including Mount Elbert, at 14,440 feet (4,401 m) elevation, the highest peak in the Rockies.
Parika Peak is situated on the Continental Divide along the boundary shared by Grand County and Jackson County. [3] It is the 13th-highest peak of the Never Summer Mountains which are a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. [5] The west side of the peak is in the Medicine Bow–Routt National Forest and the east side is in the Never Summer Wilderness.
Mount Princeton is a high and prominent mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,200.1 feet (4,328 m) fourteener is located in San Isabel National Forest, 7.8 miles (12.6 km) southwest (bearing 225°) of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States.
Precipitation runoff from the mountain's slopes drains into Lake Creek which is a tributary of the Arkansas River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 4,100 feet (1,250 m) above Lake Creek in two miles (3.2 km). The highest peak in Colorado, Mount Elbert, is 5.59 miles (9.00 km) to the north of Rinker. [3]