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Cooper Mountain

Cooper Mountain, seen from above at true elevation

Cooper Mountain rises to 3,896 m in Colorado. Grays Peak stands 4,352 m to the north-northeast, 1.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Ruby Mountain, a peak 0.7 miles away. Top of the Rockies passes 18 miles off.

About

The story

Cooper Mountain is a mountain east of Dillon in Summit County, Colorado. Grays Peak lies northeast of Cooper Mountain and Lenawee Mountain is located northwest.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Wikidata Q49021914, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
3,896 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates39.61249, -105.82751

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks: 57
  • Dinger Park: 7.7 mi
  • Library Corner Park: 9.5 mi
  • City Park: 9.7 mi
  • Gateway Park: 9.8 mi
  • Platte Park: 9.8 mi
Artworks: 33
Attractions: 19
Historic sites: 19
Museums: 19
  • George Rowe Museum: 7.8 mi
  • Hamill House Museum: 9.4 mi
  • Georgetown Firefighting Museum Alpine Hose No 2: 9.5 mi
  • Georgetown Energy Museum: 9.6 mi
  • Summit Historical Museum: 11.6 mi
Picnic sites: 14
  • Duck Creek Picnic Area: 7.7 mi
  • Hand Cart Picnic Area: 9.1 mi
  • Jefferson Lake Picnic Area: 11.3 mi
  • Clear Creek Picnic Site: 11.5 mi
  • Geneva Creek Picnic Area: 12.2 mi
Ghost towns: 9
Cliffs: 7
Waterfalls: 4
  • Willow Creek falls: 16.5 mi
  • Continental Falls: 19.0 mi
  • Elk Falls: 23.2 mi
  • Maxwell Falls: 24.2 mi
Nature reserves: 3
Beaches: 2
  • Sweet Beach Cove: 12.7 mi
  • Frisco Bay Marina Beach: 14.1 mi
Springs: 1
  • Arapaho Spring: 18.3 mi
Rest areas: 1
On the horizon

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.9 miles of Cooper Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Grays PeakNNE4,352 m1.6 mi
Torreys PeakN4,351 m2.1 mi
Mount BierstadtESE4,287 m8.7 mi
Mount EdwardsNE4,218 m2.4 mi
Square Top MountainESE4,201 m3.6 mi
Argentine PeakE4,186 m2.7 mi
Bard PeakN4,159 m7.6 mi
Gray Wolf MountainE4,148 m8.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0818:4019:16
June solstice05:3719:5520:35
September equinox06:5218:2719:02
December solstice07:2116:0016:43

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Aug.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222227334252575649392922
Precip in1.01.22.02.82.11.52.82.61.61.41.31.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cabin Creek, 7 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 182443 — Cooper Mountain, Summit County, Colorado.

OpenStreetMap element node/358919168

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