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Mount Zirkel is the highest summit of the Park Range of the
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of North America. The prominent peak is located in the
Mount Zirkel Wilderness The Mount Zirkel Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in Routt National Forest in northwest Colorado. The closest city is Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The wilderness is named after Mount Zirkel, the highest peak in the range at , which it ...
of
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, north-northeast ( bearing 19°) of the City of Steamboat Springs,
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, on the Continental Divide between
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and Routt counties. Mount Zirkel was named in honor of German geologist Ferdinand Zirkel.


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 ...
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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

Mountains of Colorado Mountains of Jackson County, Colorado Mountains of Routt County, Colorado Routt National Forest Great Divide of North America North American 3000 m summits {{Colorado-geo-stub