Parry Peak, elevation , is a summit in the

Front Range The Front Range is a mountain range of the Southern Rocky Mountains of North America located in the central portion of the U.S. State of Colorado, and southeastern portion of the U.S. State of Wyoming. It is the first mountain range encountered ...

of central

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. The peak is on the continental divide southeast of Winter Park in the

Arapahoe National Forest Arapaho National Forest is a National Forest located in north-central Colorado, United States. The region is managed jointly with the Roosevelt National Forest and the Pawnee National Grassland from the United States Forest Service office in F ...

. The name honors

Charles Christopher Parry Parry circa 1875 Charles Christopher Parry (August 28, 1823 – February 20, 1890) was a British-American botanist and mountaineer. Biography Parry was born in Gloucestershire, England, but moved to the United States with his parents in 1832, s ...

, a botanist who made extensive studies of the Colorado mountain

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in the 1860s. It is one of the 637

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 ...

s (peaks over 13,000 ft elevation) in the state of

and lies along the

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. Parry Peak is also the highest peak of the James Group of the Front Range of Colorado.

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Parry Peak on 13ers.comParry Peak on listsofjohn.comParry Peak on peakery.comParry Peak on summitpost.org
Mountains of Colorado Mountains of Clear Creek County, Colorado Mountains of Grand County, Colorado North American 4000 m summits {{colorado-geo-stub

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