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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
3896 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: 59
  • 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
Attractions: 35
Artworks: 33
Museums: 20
  • 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
Historic sites: 19
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: 8
Waterfalls: 5
  • Willow Creek falls: 16.5 mi
  • 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 PeakNNE 20°4,352 m1.6 mi
Torreys PeakN 9°4,351 m2.1 mi
Mount BierstadtESE 104°4,287 m8.7 mi
Mount EdwardsNE 47°4,218 m2.4 mi
Square Top MountainESE 112°4,201 m3.6 mi
Argentine PeakE 90°4,186 m2.7 mi
Bard PeakN 9°4,159 m7.6 mi
Gray Wolf MountainE 88°4,148 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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