Missouri Mountain
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Missouri Mountain rises to 4,290 m in Colorado. Mount Elbert stands 4,401 m to the north-northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Iowa Peak, a peak 0.6 miles away. Collegiate Peaks passes 8.4 miles off.
The story
Missouri Mountain is a high mountain summit in the Collegiate Peaks of the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,069.2-foot (4,288 m) fourteener is located in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 15.2 miles (24.5 km) northwest by west (bearing 302°) of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. Missouri Mountain is separated from its eastern neighbor Mount Belford by Elkhead Pass (13,220 feet).
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Wikidata Q6879597, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4,289.8 m
How to reach it
- 8.4 mi off the Collegiate Peaks
- 9.5 mi off the Top of the Rockies, National
Overlooks nearby
- Crystal Lake Overlook · 17 mi
- Railroad Gulch Overlook · 29 mi
- Waterfall Overlook · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Iowa Peak: 0.6 mi
- Emerald Peak: 1.3 mi
- Mount Belford: 1.3 mi
- Pecks Peak: 2.1 mi
- Mount Oxford: 2.4 mi
- Columbine Mine: 5.4 mi
- Interlaken: 9.1 mi
- Oliver's Cabin: 19.0 mi
- Rock Pile: 19.2 mi
- The Squeeze: 19.3 mi
- Vicksburg: 3.5 mi
- Winfield: 4.2 mi
- Tincup: 14.4 mi
- Independence: 16.4 mi
- St. Elmo: 16.9 mi
- McPhelemy Park: 15.0 mi
- Columbine Park: 15.2 mi
- River Park: 15.4 mi
- Millie Crymble Park: 15.8 mi
- Leadville National Fish Hatchery: 18.9 mi
- American House Hotel Parlor: 17.0 mi
- Evans Firewall & Savard Building: 17.0 mi
- St. Elmo Town Hall & Jail: 17.0 mi
- Temple Israel: 21.1 mi
- Tabor Home Museum: 21.3 mi
- Pieplant Mill: 9.7 mi
- Stringtown Smelters: 20.6 mi
- Clear Grit Mill: 20.6 mi
- The Boulevard to Soda Springs and Evergreen Lakes: 20.7 mi
- Hancock: 21.3 mi
- Chalk Cliffs: 18.3 mi
- Lower Grotto Wall: 20.9 mi
- The Palisades: 22.0 mi
- Mount Elbert Picnic Area: 10.3 mi
- Emerald Lake: 14.2 mi
- Ryks Waterfall: 19.3 mi
- Browns Creek Falls: 22.8 mi
- White Water Spring: 19.8 mi
- Cloud City Farm & Community Garden: 20.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.3 miles of Missouri Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Elbert | NNW 343° | 4,401 m | 12.3 mi |
| Mount Harvard | ESE 117° | 4,396 m | 3.5 mi |
| La Plata Peak | NW 318° | 4,372 m | 7.6 mi |
| Mount Princeton | SSE 152° | 4,329 m | 15.5 mi |
| Mount Belford | NE 47° | 4,329 m | 1.3 mi |
| Mount Yale | SSE 154° | 4,328 m | 7.9 mi |
| Mount Oxford | ENE 61° | 4,316 m | 2.4 mi |
| Mount Columbia | SE 125° | 4,285 m | 5.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:43 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:41 | 19:55 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:29 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:21 | 16:05 | 16:47 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Aug.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 19 | 20 | 27 | 34 | 44 | 53 | 59 | 57 | 50 | 40 | 30 | 21 |
| Precip in | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Twin Lakes Rsvr, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 189167 — Missouri Mountain, Chaffee County, Colorado.
OpenStreetMap element node/1978535762
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