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Mount Columbia

Mount Columbia, a peak in Colorado
Mount Columbia, a peak in ColoradoDavid Herrera from Albuquerque, NM, Bernalillo · CC BY 2.0
Mount Columbia, a peak in Colorado
HowardCampbell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mount Columbia, a peak in Colorado
Jonathan Thorne from Colorado, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

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Mount Columbia rises to 4,285 m in Colorado. Mount Harvard stands 4,396 m to the northwest, 1.9 miles off. Collegiate Peaks passes 6.3 miles off.

About

The story

Mount Columbia is a high mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,072.6-foot (4,289 m) fourteener is located in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 9.9 miles (16.0 km) northwest by west (bearing 301°) of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. The mountain was named by Roger W. Toll in honor of his alma mater, Columbia University, and in commemoration of its rowing victory at the renowned Henley Royal Regatta in 1878.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Wikidata Q6920212, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
4285 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates38.90388, -106.29752

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Attractions: 15
  • Columbine Mine: 9.0 mi
  • Interlaken: 12.3 mi
  • Rock Pile: 13.9 mi
  • The Squeeze: 14.0 mi
  • Whale's Tail: 14.5 mi
Ghost towns: 10
Parks: 9
  • McPhelemy Park: 9.8 mi
  • Columbine Park: 10.0 mi
  • River Park: 10.2 mi
  • Millie Crymble Park: 10.5 mi
  • Chalk Cliff Fish Hatchery: 14.3 mi
Museums: 8
  • Evans Firewall & Savard Building: 14.1 mi
  • American House Hotel Parlor: 14.1 mi
  • St. Elmo Town Hall & Jail: 14.1 mi
  • Temple Israel: 23.7 mi
  • Tabor Home Museum: 23.8 mi
Historic sites: 6
  • Pieplant Mill: 14.3 mi
  • Hancock: 18.6 mi
  • Clear Grit Mill: 22.4 mi
  • Stringtown Smelters: 23.3 mi
  • The Boulevard to Soda Springs and Evergreen Lakes: 23.4 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Browns Creek Falls: 18.4 mi
  • Twin Falls: 22.7 mi
  • Ryks Waterfall: 24.6 mi
Picnic sites: 2
Cliffs: 2
Nature reserves: 1
Springs: 1
  • White Water Spring: 23.0 mi
Gardens: 1
On the horizon

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 16.7 miles of Mount Columbia. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount HarvardNW 319°4,395.6 m1.9 mi
La Plata PeakNW 313°4,372 m12.8 mi
Mount AnteroS 170°4,351.4 m16.1 mi
Mount PrincetonSSE 164°4,329.3 m11.1 mi
Mount BelfordNW 319°4,329.1 m5.2 mi
Mount YaleSSW 192°4,328 m4.2 mi
Mount OxfordNNW 332°4,315.9 m4.8 mi
Missouri MountainNW 305°4,289.8 m5.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0918:4219:17
June solstice05:4119:5520:35
September equinox06:5418:2919:04
December solstice07:2116:0516:47

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262836425161666457463526
Precip in0.30.40.61.01.20.71.51.60.90.80.40.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Buena Vista 2S, 11 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 203886 — Mount Columbia, Chaffee County, Colorado.

OpenStreetMap element node/358944378

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