Challenger Point
Challenger Point rises to 4,294 m in Colorado. Crestone Peak stands 4,359 m to the southeast, 1.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Kit Carson Mountain, a peak 0.2 miles away. Frontier Pathways passes 13 miles off.
The story
Challenger Point is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,084.6-foot (4,293 m) fourteener is located 5.0 miles (8.1 km) east by south (bearing 102°) of the Town of Crestone in Saguache County, Colorado, United States. The summit is on the northwest shoulder of Kit Carson Mountain, and is a subpeak of the latter. It was renamed in memory of the seven astronauts who died when the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated shortly after liftoff on January 28, 1986.
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Wikidata Q5068967, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4,294 m
How to reach it
- 13.3 mi off the Frontier Pathways, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Kit Carson Mountain: 0.2 mi
- Columbia Point: 0.5 mi
- Obstruction Peak: 1.0 mi
- Crestone Peaks: 1.4 mi
- Crestone Peak: 1.5 mi
- Baca Grande Park: 4.6 mi
- Little Pearl Pocket Park: 5.2 mi
- Hermit Park: 12.9 mi
- Memorial Park: 12.9 mi
- Summit Park: 12.9 mi
- Patton Spring: 16.0 mi
- Bailey Spring: 16.2 mi
- Cedar Spring: 16.8 mi
- Trover Spring: 17.7 mi
- Mosca Spring: 17.9 mi
- USFS CORNER: 10.4 mi
- The 38th Parallel: 16.5 mi
- Welcome to Hooper: 21.8 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 21.8 mi
- Hooper Town Park: 21.9 mi
- Crestone Town Hall: 5.1 mi
- All Aboard Westcliffe: 13.0 mi
- SILVER CLIFF MUSEUM: 13.9 mi
- Beckwith Ranch: 15.3 mi
- Grand Sand Dunes Sign: 20.0 mi
- Rock dedicated to L.B. "Bill" Casselman: 22.0 mi
- Colorado Gators Reptile Park: 23.8 mi
- Copperstain Cliff: 2.8 mi
- Phantom Terrace: 5.3 mi
- Venable Falls: 6.6 mi
- Great Sand Dunes National Park: 12.8 mi
- Double Dipper: 13.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.0 miles of Challenger Point. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crestone Peak | SE 129° | 4,359 m | 1.5 mi |
| East Crestone Peak | SE 126° | 4,359 m | 1.5 mi |
| Crestone Needle | ESE 123° | 4,329 m | 2.0 mi |
| Kit Carson Mountain | E 101° | 4,319 m | 0.2 mi |
| Humboldt Peak | E 96° | 4,289 m | 2.8 mi |
| Mount Adams | N 3° | 4,248 m | 1.9 mi |
| Columbia Point | ESE 102° | 4,242 m | 0.5 mi |
| Obstruction Peak | E 97° | 4,206 m | 1.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:40 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:41 | 19:50 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:51 | 18:26 | 19:01 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 16:06 | 16:47 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 21 | 27 | 36 | 42 | 51 | 61 | 66 | 63 | 57 | 45 | 32 | 22 |
| Precip in | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Crestone 2 SE, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358931322
Day trips start here
- Great Sand Dunes National Park · 18 mi
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