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Half Peak is the highest summit of the east central
San Juan Mountains 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 ...
in the
Rocky Mountains The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch in straight-line distance from the northernmost part of western Canada, to New Mexico ...
of North America.


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The
thirteener In mountaineering in the United States, a thirteener (abbreviated 13er) is a mountain that exceeds above mean sea level, similar to the more familiar "fourteeners," which exceed . In most instances, "thirteeners" refers only to those peaks betwee ...
is located in
Gunnison National Forest The Gunnison National Forest is a U.S. National Forest covering 1,672,136 acres (2,612.71 sq mi, or 6,766.89 km²) bearing 216°) of the Town of Lake City in Hinsdale County,
Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the wes ...
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.


See also

* List of Colorado mountain ranges * List of Colorado mountain summits **
List of Colorado fourteeners This is a list of mountain peaks in the U.S. State of Colorado that exceed of 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 co ...
** List of Colorado 4000 meter prominent summits **
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 ...


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Mountains of Hinsdale County, Colorado Gunnison National Forest San Juan Mountains (Colorado) North American 4000 m summits Mountains of Colorado {{Colorado-geo-stub