Mount Blaurock
Mount Blaurock rises to 4,143 m in Colorado. Mount Elbert stands 4,401 m to the north, 7.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Ervin Peak, a peak 1.0 miles away. Top of the Rockies passes 6.6 miles off.
The story
Mount Blaurock is a high mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,623-foot (4,152 m) thirteener is located in San Isabel National Forest, 21.1 miles (33.9 km) northwest by west (bearing 307°) of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. Mount Blaurock was named in honor of Carl Blaurock, a co-founder of the Colorado Mountain Club and one of the first two persons to climb all of Colorado's fourteeners.
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Wikidata Q8537012, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4,143 m
How to reach it
- 6.6 mi off the Top of the Rockies, National
- 10.1 mi off the Collegiate Peaks
Overlooks nearby
- Crystal Lake Overlook · 14 mi
- Waterfall Overlook · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Ervin Peak: 1.0 mi
- La Plata Peak: 1.6 mi
- Rinker Peak: 1.9 mi
- Mount Hope: 1.9 mi
- Twin Peaks: 2.7 mi
- Leadville National Fish Hatchery: 14.4 mi
- Bob Zaitz Park: 18.6 mi
- Ice Palace Park: 18.7 mi
- McPhelemy Park: 20.8 mi
- Columbine Park: 21.0 mi
- Temple Israel: 18.4 mi
- Tabor Home Museum: 18.6 mi
- National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum: 18.7 mi
- The Leadville Heritage Museum: 18.7 mi
- Healy House Museum & Dexter Cabin: 18.7 mi
- Winfield: 1.9 mi
- Vicksburg: 4.3 mi
- Independence: 10.5 mi
- Tincup: 17.8 mi
- Ashcroft: 18.7 mi
- Columbine Mine: 5.2 mi
- Interlaken: 7.3 mi
- Oliver's Cabin: 15.5 mi
- Ashcroft Ghost Town: 18.8 mi
- Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 641: 18.8 mi
- Pieplant Mill: 7.6 mi
- Stringtown Smelters: 17.7 mi
- The Boulevard to Soda Springs and Evergreen Lakes: 17.8 mi
- Irish Immigrant Miners' Memorial: 18.5 mi
- Dog Memorial: 18.7 mi
- Aspen Center for Environmental Studies: 23.4 mi
- Marolt Open Space: 24.0 mi
- Moore Open Space: 24.6 mi
- Mount Elbert Picnic Area: 8.3 mi
- Emerald Lake: 10.1 mi
- Lower Grotto Wall: 15.2 mi
- Chalk Cliffs: 24.2 mi
- Ryks Waterfall: 13.6 mi
- Cloud City Farm & Community Garden: 18.0 mi
- White Water Spring: 18.7 mi
- Conundrum Hot Springs: 23.5 mi
- Chromatic Gate: 23.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.0 miles of Mount Blaurock. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Elbert | N 3° | 4,401 m | 7.4 mi |
| Mount Massive | N 354° | 4,398 m | 12.2 mi |
| Mount Harvard | SE 130° | 4,396 m | 9.3 mi |
| La Plata Peak | NW 321° | 4,372 m | 1.6 mi |
| Mount Belford | SE 125° | 4,329 m | 6.1 mi |
| Mount Yale | SSE 147° | 4,328 m | 13.8 mi |
| Mount Oxford | ESE 117° | 4,316 m | 6.9 mi |
| Missouri Mountain | SE 137° | 4,290 m | 6.0 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 | 19:56 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:29 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 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, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358947103
Day trips start here
- Aspen · 23 mi
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