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Mount Chiquita is a 
mountain
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summit
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in the Mummy Range of the Rocky Mountains
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of North America
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. The thirteener
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is located in Rocky Mountain National Park
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, northwest by west ( bearing 298°) of the Town of Estes Park in Larimer County
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, Colorado
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, United States
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.
Tourists can reach Mount Chiquita via Chapin Pass which is an 8.0 kilometer out and back trail located near Estes Park, Colorado that features beautiful wild flowers and is rated as moderate. The trail is primarily used for hiking and running and is accessible year-round.
See also
*List of Colorado mountain ranges
All the major mountain ranges in the state of Colorado, United States, are considered subranges of the Southern Rocky Mountains.
As given in the table, topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical mode ...
* 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 ...
*List of Colorado county high points
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References
External links
Mountains of Rocky Mountain National Park Mountains of Larimer County, Colorado Three-thousanders of the United States {{Colorado-geo-stub