The Sneffels Range, regionally conterminous with
San Juans, is a young, prominent, and rugged range of mountains in southwestern
Colorado
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of the
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 ...
. The Sneffels range form the southern border of
Ouray County and run west to east.
Prominence
The Sneffels Range can be viewed from as far as the
La Sal Mountains in eastern
Utah
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and is very prominent from most vantage points of the
Uncompahgre Valley. The most prominent peak of the Sneffels Range is Mount Sneffels reaching .
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Mount Sneffels
Mount Sneffels is the highest summit of the Sneffels Range in the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent fourteener is located in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness of Uncompahgre National Forest, west by south ( bearing 256°) of the ...
14,158 ft
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Teakettle Mountain 13,819 ft
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Dallas Peak 13,809 ft
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Potosi Peak 13,786 ft
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Gilpin Peak
Gilpin Peak is a Elevation, high mountain summit in the Sneffels Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The thirteener is located in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness of Uncompahgre National Forest, north-northeast (Absolute bearing, beari ...
13,694 ft
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Cirque Mountain
Cirque Mountain is a mountain located northeast of Mount Caubvick
Mount Caubvick (known as Mont D'Iberville in Quebec) is a mountain located in Canada on the border between Labrador and Quebec in the Selamiut Range of the Torngat Mountains. ...
13,686 ft
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Mount Emma
Mount Emma is a mountain summit located in San Miguel County of Colorado, United States. It is situated three miles north of the community of Telluride, on the south side of Yankee Boy Basin, in the Uncompahgre National Forest. It is part of ...
13,581 ft
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Mears Peak
Mears Peak is a mountain summit located on the common boundary of Ouray County with San Miguel County, in Colorado, United States. It is situated six miles northwest of the community of Telluride, in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness, on land man ...
13,496 ft
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Whitehouse Mountain 13,492 ft
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Mount Ridgway 13,468 ft
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Chicago Peak
Chicago Peak is a mountain summit located on the shared boundary of San Miguel County with Ouray County in southwest Colorado, United States. It is situated east of the community of Telluride, on land managed by Uncompahgre National Forest. ...
13,385 ft
*Campbell Peak 13,213 ft
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United States Mountain
United States Mountain is a mountain summit located in Ouray County of southwest Colorado, United States. It is situated six miles southwest of the community of Ouray, on land managed by Uncompahgre National Forest. It is part of the Sneffels ...
13,036 ft
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Hayden Peak 12,987 ft
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Stony Mountain 12,698 ft
See also
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Cimarron Ridge
References
External links
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{{Mountains of Colorado, state=collapsed
San Juan Mountains (Colorado)
Mountain ranges of Ouray County, Colorado