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Mount Bierstadt

Mount Bierstadt, a peak in Colorado
Mount Bierstadt, a peak in ColoradoDavid Herrera from Albuquerque, NM, Bernalillo · CC BY 2.0
Mount Bierstadt, a peak in Colorado
Adam Ginsburg · CC BY 2.5
Mount Bierstadt, a peak in Colorado
Greg Younger from Fort Collins, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mount Bierstadt, a peak in Colorado
Jeremiah LaRocco · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mount Bierstadt, a peak in Colorado
Adam Ginsburg · CC BY-SA 2.5
Mount Bierstadt, a peak in Colorado
Greg Younger from Fort Collins, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

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Mount Bierstadt rises to 4,287 m in Colorado. Grays Peak stands 4,352 m to the west-northwest, 8.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Abyss Lake Scenic Area, a nature reserve 0.7 miles away. Lariat Loop Scenic and Historic Byway passes 17 miles off.

About

The story

Mount Bierstadt is a 14,064.5-foot-high (4,287 m) mountain summit in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. state of Colorado. The fourteener is located in the Mount Evans Wilderness of Pike National Forest, 9.4 miles (15.1 km) south by east (bearing 171°) of the Town of Georgetown in Clear Creek County. It was named in honor of Albert Bierstadt, a German-American landscape painter who made the first recorded summit of the mountain in 1863.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Wikidata Q1950397, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
4287 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates39.58262, -105.66877

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
  • Mount Spalding: 1.3 mi
  • Mount Blue Sky: 1.4 mi
  • Epaulet Mountain: 2.1 mi
  • Gray Wolf Mountain: 2.4 mi
  • Mount Warren: 2.4 mi
Parks
  • Summit Lake: 1.8 mi
  • Echo Lake Park: 6.4 mi
  • Dinger Park: 8.5 mi
  • Library Corner Park: 8.7 mi
  • City Park: 8.9 mi
Artworks: 50
Attractions: 37
Historic sites: 25
Museums: 21
Picnic sites: 19
  • Duck Creek Picnic Area: 5.0 mi
  • Geneva Creek Picnic Area: 7.5 mi
  • Chicago Forks Picnic Ground: 7.5 mi
  • Ponder Point Picnic Area: 7.6 mi
  • Juniper Pass: 7.9 mi
Ghost towns: 9
Cliffs: 5
Nature reserves: 4
Waterfalls: 3
  • Elk Falls: 14.6 mi
  • Maxwell Falls: 15.5 mi
  • Continental Falls: 24.8 mi
Beaches: 2
  • Sweet Beach Cove: 21.1 mi
  • Frisco Bay Marina Beach: 22.3 mi
Springs: 1
  • Arapaho Spring: 11.7 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Keyhole Rock: 24.4 mi
Gardens: 1
  • Rosary Garden: 24.7 mi
On the horizon

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.3 miles of Mount Bierstadt. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Grays PeakWNW 294°4,352 m8.7 mi
Torreys PeakWNW 297°4,351 m9.1 mi
Mount Blue SkyENE 73°4,350 m1.4 mi
Mount SpaldingNNE 29°4,222 m1.3 mi
Mount EdwardsWNW 299°4,218 m7.6 mi
Square Top MountainW 278°4,201 m5.2 mi
Argentine PeakWNW 290°4,186 m6.1 mi
Gray Wolf MountainN 10°4,148 m2.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0718:3919:15
June solstice05:3619:5420:34
September equinox06:5118:2619:01
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, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/358919195

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