Flat Top Mountain (Colorado)
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Flat Top Mountain is the highest summit of the Flat Tops in the
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of North America. The prominent peak is located in the Flat Tops Wilderness, south-southwest ( bearing 201°) of the Town of Oak Creek,
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, on the drainage divide between
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and
White River National Forest White River National Forest is a National Forest in northwest Colorado. It is named after the White River that passes through its northern section. It is the most visited National Forest in the United States, primarily from users of the twelv ...
. The summit of Flat Top Mountain is the
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in
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.


Climate

Flat Top Mountain has a subalpine climate (
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''Dfc''), bordering on
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(''ET''), with only one month averaging over 10°C.


See also

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List of mountain peaks of Colorado This is a list of major mountain peaks in the U.S. State of Colorado. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a m ...
**
List of the most prominent summits of Colorado The following sortable table comprises the 100 most topographically prominent mountain peaks of the U.S. State of Colorado. Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea le ...
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List of Colorado county high points This is a list of all 64 counties of the U.S. State of Colorado by their points of highest elevation. Of the 50 highest county high points in the United States, 30 are located in Colorado. The highest point in Colorado is the summit of Mount ...


References


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* Mountains of Colorado Mountains of Garfield County, Colorado Routt National Forest White River National Forest North American 3000 m summits {{Colorado-geo-stub