Crestone Needle
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Crestone Needle rises to 4,329 m in Colorado. East Crestone Peak stands 4,359 m to the west-northwest, 0.4 miles off. Frontier Pathways passes 13 miles off.
The story
Crestone Needle is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,194.8-foot (4,327 m) fourteener is located 6.9 miles (11.1 km) east-southeast (bearing 108°) of the Town of Crestone in Saguache County, Colorado, United States. The Crestones are a cluster of high summits in the Sangre de Cristo Range, comprising Crestone Peak, Crestone Needle, Kit Carson Peak, Challenger Point, Humboldt Peak, and Columbia Point. They are usually accessed from common trailheads.
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Wikidata Q945543, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4,329 m
How to reach it
- 13.3 mi off the Frontier Pathways, National
Named places within 25 miles
- East Crestone Peak: 0.4 mi
- Crestone Peak: 0.5 mi
- Crestone Peaks: 0.5 mi
- Crestolita Peak: 0.7 mi
- Broken Hand Peak: 0.8 mi
- Baca Grande Park: 6.4 mi
- Little Pearl Pocket Park: 7.0 mi
- Hermit Park: 12.9 mi
- Memorial Park: 13.0 mi
- Summit Park: 13.1 mi
- Patton Spring: 14.1 mi
- Bailey Spring: 14.3 mi
- Cedar Spring: 14.9 mi
- Trover Spring: 15.8 mi
- Mosca Spring: 16.4 mi
- USFS CORNER: 11.5 mi
- The 38th Parallel: 18.3 mi
- Welcome to Hooper: 22.2 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 22.3 mi
- Hooper Town Park: 22.3 mi
- Crestone Town Hall: 7.0 mi
- All Aboard Westcliffe: 13.1 mi
- SILVER CLIFF MUSEUM: 13.8 mi
- Beckwith Ranch: 15.9 mi
- Grand Sand Dunes Sign: 18.7 mi
- Rock dedicated to L.B. "Bill" Casselman: 20.9 mi
- Colorado Gators Reptile Park: 24.0 mi
- Copperstain Cliff: 3.0 mi
- Phantom Terrace: 6.7 mi
- Venable Falls: 7.7 mi
- Zapata Falls: 23.9 mi
- Great Sand Dunes National Park: 11.9 mi
- Double Dipper: 13.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.5 miles of Crestone Needle. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Crestone Peak | WNW 293° | 4,359 m | 0.4 mi |
| Crestone Peak | WNW 287° | 4,359 m | 0.5 mi |
| Kit Carson Mountain | NW 306° | 4,319 m | 1.7 mi |
| Challenger Point | WNW 303° | 4,294 m | 2.0 mi |
| Humboldt Peak | NE 56° | 4,289 m | 1.4 mi |
| Mount Adams | NNW 333° | 4,248 m | 3.3 mi |
| Columbia Point | NW 310° | 4,242 m | 1.5 mi |
| Obstruction Peak | NNW 326° | 4,206 m | 1.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:40 | 19:14 |
| June solstice | 05:41 | 19:50 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:51 | 18:26 | 19:01 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 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, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 203951 — Crestone Needle, Saguache County, Colorado.
OpenStreetMap element node/358944415
Day trips start here
- Great Sand Dunes National Park · 16 mi
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