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Evening Star Mountain

Evening Star Mountain, seen from above at true elevation

Evening Star Mountain rises to 3,153 m in Colorado. Pikes Peak stands 4,302 m to the north-northeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Lowell Thomas Museum, a museum 0.5 miles away. Gold Belt Tour passes 0.4 miles off.

About

The story

summit in Teller County, Colorado, United States of America

Wikidata Q49077277, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
3153 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates38.71479, -105.14722

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
  • Battle Mountain: 0.6 mi
  • Beacon Hill: 1.1 mi
  • Guyot Hill: 1.1 mi
  • Straub Mountain: 1.5 mi
  • Rosebud Hill: 1.5 mi
Parks
  • Mountain View Adventure Park: 2.9 mi
  • Lower Beaver Park: 5.4 mi
  • Beaver Creek State Wildlife Area: 6.0 mi
  • Cathedral Park: 6.7 mi
  • High Park: 9.1 mi
Attractions: 55
  • Cripple Creek and Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad: 2.6 mi
  • Mollie Kathleen Mine: 2.7 mi
  • Pancake Rocks: 7.0 mi
  • Seep Springs Arch: 12.3 mi
  • Halfway Picnic Area: 13.6 mi
Artworks: 43
  • Rita the Rock Planter: 1.4 mi
  • Big Red Chair: 16.1 mi
  • Starr Kempf's Kinetic Sculptures: 16.1 mi
  • Back to Kansas: 16.8 mi
  • Anklyosaurus: 17.8 mi
Gardens: 31
  • Bear Sculpture Garden: 16.2 mi
  • Shipping Container Farm: 16.3 mi
  • The Secret Garden: 17.9 mi
  • westside community garden: 18.4 mi
  • Rock Garden: 19.1 mi
Historic sites: 25
  • Gresson Ore Sorting: 0.8 mi
  • America the Beautiful: 10.4 mi
  • Nelson Camp: 11.0 mi
  • George Eber Duclo: 16.1 mi
  • Mountaineer Train Memorial: 16.3 mi
Cliffs: 25
  • The Gym: 6.7 mi
  • New Gym: 6.9 mi
  • Cactus Cliff: 6.9 mi
  • Spiney Ridge: 6.9 mi
  • Gem Vault: 7.0 mi
Museums: 24
Picnic sites: 20
  • Lakemoor Community Picnic Area: 6.2 mi
  • Lakemoor Community Picnic Area: 6.2 mi
  • Barksdale Picnic Area: 14.8 mi
  • Crowe Gulch Picnic Ground: 15.4 mi
  • South Spring Cañon Picnic Area: 17.3 mi
Springs: 11
Waterfalls: 9
  • Helen Hunt Falls: 14.1 mi
  • Ramona: 15.1 mi
  • Feather: 15.1 mi
  • Bridal Veil: 15.1 mi
  • Shorty: 15.1 mi
Nature reserves: 8
Ghost towns: 4
Hot springs: 1
  • Dakota Hot Springs: 21.1 mi
On the horizon

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.9 miles of Evening Star Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Pikes PeakNNE 33°4,302 m10.3 mi
Little Pikes PeakNNE 27°4,073 m10.4 mi
Devil's PlaygroundNNE 22°3,984 m11.1 mi
Sachett MountainNE 42°3,837 m9.9 mi
Sentinel PointNNE 15°3,814 m9.0 mi
Sheep MountainNE 43°3,780 m7.4 mi
Almagre MountainENE 57°3,768 m9.8 mi
Mount RosaENE 76°3,507 m11.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0518:3819:13
June solstice05:3719:5020:29
September equinox06:4918:2418:59
December solstice07:1616:0116:43

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242532374758626054433324
Precip in0.50.61.31.71.81.83.23.41.70.90.60.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cripple Creek 3nnw, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/358926752

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