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 encounter ...
of central
Colorado
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. The peak is on the
continental divide
A continental divide is a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea, and the basin on the other side either feeds into a different ocean or sea, or else is endorheic, not ...
southeast of
Winter Park in the
Arapaho National Forest. The name honors
Charles Christopher Parry
image:Charles Christopher Parry.jpg, Parry circa 1875
Charles Christopher Parry (August 28, 1823 – February 20, 1890) was a British-American botanist and Mountaineering, mountaineer.
Biography
Parry was born in Gloucestershire, England, but mo ...
, a
botanist
Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...
who made extensive studies of the Colorado mountain
flora
Flora (: floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous (ecology), indigenous) native plant, native plants. The corresponding term for animals is ''fauna'', and for f ...
in the 1860s. It is one of the 637
thirteeners (peaks over 13,000 ft elevation) in the state of
Colorado
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and lies along the
Continental Divide Trail
The Continental Divide National Scenic Trail (in short Continental Divide Trail, CDT) is a United States National Scenic Trail with a length measured by the Continental Divide Trail Coalition of between the U.S. border with Chihuahua (state), Chi ...
.
Parry Peak is also the highest peak of the James Group of the Front Range of Colorado.
See also
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List of mountain peaks of North America
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List of mountain peaks of the United States
This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks of the United States of America.
The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three main ways:
#The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the tip o ...
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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 peaks in Colorado.
The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
#The topographi ...
References
External links
Parry Peak on 13ers.comParry Peak on listsofjohn.comParry Peak on peakery.comParry Peak on summitpost.org
Mountains of Clear Creek County, Colorado
Mountains of Grand County, Colorado
Four-thousanders of the United States
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