Lone Cone (Colorado)

Lone Cone is a Topographic prominence, prominent mountain summit at the western end of the San Miguel Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The peak is located west by south (Absolute bearing, bearing 262°) of the Telluride, Colorado, Town of Telluride, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide separating San Juan National Forest and Dolores County, Colorado, Dolores County from Uncompahgre National Forest and San Miguel County, Colorado, San Miguel County.

Geology

The mountain, a laccolith, is between 20 and 40 million years old and is the westernmost of over a dozen laccoliths that are the same age as rocks in the San Juan volcanic field.

Historical names

*Lone Cone – 1906
*West Point

See also

*List of mountain ranges of Colorado, List of Colorado mountain ranges
*List of mountains of the United States#Colorado, List of Colorado mountain summits
**List of Colorado fourteeners
**List of mountain peaks of Colorado#Highest major summits, List of Colorado 4000 meter prominent summits
**List of the most prominent summits of Colorado
*List of Colorado county high points

References

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Mountains of Colorado
Mountains of Dolores County, Colorado
Mountains of San Miguel County, Colorado
San Juan National Forest
Uncompahgre National Forest
North American 3000 m summits
Laccoliths
Volcanoes of Colorado

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