Paiute Peak is a mountain
summit on the boundary shared by
Boulder County and
Grand County, in
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ...
, United States.
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Description
Paiute Peak is set on the Continental Divide in the Front Range which is a subrange of the Rocky Mountains.Monarch Lake
Monarch Lake is a reservoir in Grand County, Colorado located within the Arapaho National Recreation Area. The reservoir is adjacent to the Indian Peaks Wilderness on its north and east sides. The Continental Divide National Scenic Trail pass ...
via Cascade and Thunderbolt creeks, thence Lake Granby. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above Blue Lake in 0.75 mile and above Pawnee Lake in one mile (1.6 km). An ascent of the peak involves hiking (round trip) with of elevation gain.[Jon Kedrowski (2022), ''Classic Colorado Hikes'', Colorado Mountain Club, ] The mountain was named by Ellsworth Bethel and the toponym was officially adopted on October 7, 1914, by the United States Board on Geographic Names.[
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Climate
According to the Köppen climate classification system, the mountain is located in an alpine subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and cool to warm summers.
Climbing
Established climbing routes on Paiute Peak:
See also
* Thirteener
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References
External links
* Paiute Peak
weather forecast
* Paiute Peak climbing
Mountainproject.com
{{Mountains of Colorado
Mountains of Grand County, Colorado
Mountains of Boulder County, Colorado
Three-thousanders of the United States
Arapaho National Forest
Roosevelt National Forest
Great Divide of North America