Little Bear Peak
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Little Bear Peak rises to 4,280 m in Colorado. Blanca Peak stands 4,374 m to the northeast, 1.0 miles off. Scenic Highway of Legends passes 25 miles off. 96 named places lie within 25 miles, 51 of them named summits.
The story
Little Bear Peak is a high mountain summit in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,039.5-foot (4,279 m) fourteener is located on the Sierra Blanca Massif, 8.8 miles (14.2 km) north by east (bearing 6°) of the Town of Blanca, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide separating Rio Grande National Forest and Alamosa County from the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant and Costilla County. Little Bear lies 0.96 miles (1.54 km) southwest of Blanca Peak, the ultra prominent fourteener that is the highest point of the massif.
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Wikidata Q6649033, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4280 m
How to reach it
- 25.2 mi off the Scenic Highway of Legends, National
Overlooks nearby
96 named places within 25 miles
- Blanca Peak: 1.0 mi
- Ellingwood Point: 1.1 mi
- Hamilton Peak: 1.4 mi
- Twin Peaks: 2.0 mi
- Iron Nipple: 3.0 mi
- Blanca Park: 9.0 mi
- Fort Garland Park: 10.2 mi
- Veteran's Park: 10.8 mi
- San Luis Lake SWA: 15.6 mi
- Sunrise Park: 20.4 mi
- Denton Spring: 9.3 mi
- Mosca Spring: 11.6 mi
- Trover Spring: 24.5 mi
- Patton Spring: 24.6 mi
- Bailey Spring: 24.7 mi
- Japanese Memorial Garden: 21.9 mi
- Hooper Town Park: 24.2 mi
- Welcome to Hooper: 24.3 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 24.5 mi
- Welcome to Hooper: 24.6 mi
- Rock dedicated to L.B. "Bill" Casselman: 8.7 mi
- Grand Sand Dunes Sign: 9.2 mi
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Number 169: 21.1 mi
- Colorado Gators Reptile Park: 22.6 mi
- Fort Garland Museum & Cultural Center: 10.5 mi
- San Luis Valley Museum: 21.2 mi
- Great Sand Dunes National Park: 17.0 mi
- Rio Grande Healthy Living Park: 20.8 mi
- Windy Point: 17.5 mi
- Hansen Bluff: 17.7 mi
- Zapata Falls: 4.7 mi
- Duncan: 22.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Little Bear Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blanca Peak | NE 41° | 4,374 m | 1.0 mi |
| Ellingwood Point | NNE 14° | 4,282 m | 1.1 mi |
| Mount Lindsey | ENE 68° | 4,282 m | 3.1 mi |
| California Peak | N 359° | 4,221 m | 3.3 mi |
| Hamilton Peak | ESE 116° | 4,154 m | 1.4 mi |
| Tijeras Peak | N 355° | 4,149 m | 24.8 mi |
| Tiseras Peak | N 355° | 4,140 m | 24.8 mi |
| Twin Peaks | NW 324° | 4,132 m | 2.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:06 | 18:40 | 19:14 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:48 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:51 | 18:26 | 19:01 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 16:07 | 16:48 |
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 | 20 | 26 | 36 | 43 | 52 | 61 | 66 | 64 | 57 | 45 | 32 | 21 |
| Precip in | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Blanca 4 NW, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358945058
Day trips start here
- Great Sand Dunes National Park · 12 mi
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