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Collegiate Peaks central Sawatch Range Range View of the Collegiate Peaks from near the Arkansas River just south of Chalk Creek.Country United States State Colorado County Chaffee Part of Sawatch Range, Rocky Mountains Highest point Mount Harvard - elevation 14,427 ft (4,397 m) - coordinates 38°55′28″N 106°19′15″W / 38.92444°N 106.32083°W Length 34 mi (55 km), W-E Width 30 mi (48 km), N-S Area 587 sq mi (1,520 km2) The Collegiate Peaks (or Collegiate Range[1]) is a name given to a section of the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains located in central Colorado. The Collegiate Peaks include some of the highest mountains in the Rockies. The section is so named because several of the mountains are named for prominent universities.
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Prominent peaks
Summits of the Collegiate Peaks With At Least 100 Meters of Topographic Prominence Rank Mountain Peak Elevation Prominence Isolation 1 Mount Harvard NGS 14,421 ft
4396 m2,327 ft
709 m15 mi
24 km2 La Plata Peak[2] 14,368 ft
4379 m1,841 ft
561 m6 mi
10 km3 Mount Belford NGS 14,204 ft
4329 m1,317 ft
401 m3.3 mi
5.3 km4 Mount Princeton NGS 14,204 ft
4329 m2,177 ft
664 m5.2 mi
8.4 km5 Mount Yale NGS 14,202 ft
4329 m1,876 ft
572 m5.5 mi
8.9 km6 Mount Oxford NGS 14,160 ft
4316 m633 ft
193 m1.2 mi
2.0 km7 Mount Columbia NGS 14,079 ft
4291 m873 ft
266 m1.9 mi
3.1 km8 Missouri Mountain NGS 14,074 ft
4290 m827 ft
252 m1.3 mi
2.1 km9 Huron Peak NGS 14,012 ft
4271 m1,403 ft
428 m3.2 mi
5.2 km10 Grizzly Peak NGS 13,995 ft
4266 m1,908 ft
582 m7 mi
11 km11 Ice Mountain[2] PB 13,958 ft
4254 m991 ft
302 m2.1 mi
3.4 km12 Mount Hope[2] PB 13,939 ft
4249 m853 ft
260 m2.9 mi
4.7 km13 Emerald Peak[2] PB 13,911 ft
4240 m544 ft
166 m1.3 mi
2.1 km14 North Apostle[2] PB 13,847 ft
4220 m360 ft
110 m0.4 mi
0.6 km15 Rinker Peak[2] PB 13,789 ft
4203 m903 ft
275 m1.5 mi
2.5 km16 Peak 13,762 (Silver King Peak)[2] PB 13,769 ft
4197 m822 ft
251 m1.7 mi
2.7 km17 Garfield Peak[2] PB 13,767 ft
4196 m340 ft
104 m0.8 mi
1.3 km18 Sayres Benchmark NGS PB 13,745 ft
4189 m958 ft
292 m1.9 mi
3.1 kmSee also
- Collegiate Peaks Wilderness
- Sawatch Range
- Geography of Colorado
- Mountain peaks of Colorado
- Mountain ranges of Colorado
- Rocky Mountains
References
- ^ http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=154:4:2212133346118959::NO:4:P4_FID,FNAME:1828947%2CCollegiate%20Range
- ^ a b c d e f g h The elevation of this summit has been converted from the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). National Geodetic Survey
External links
- "Rocky Mountains". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/range.aspx?rid=14.
- "Southern Rocky Mountains". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/range.aspx?rid=146.
- "Sawatch Range". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/range.aspx?rid=1465.
- "Collegiate Peaks". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/range.aspx?rid=14652.
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