Mount Rosa
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Mount Rosa rises to 3,507 m in Colorado. Pikes Peak stands 4,302 m to the northwest, 7.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Nelson Camp, a historic site 1.5 miles away. Gold Belt Tour passes 10 miles off.
The story
Mount Rosa is a mountain summit of the Pikes Peak Massif in the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 11,504-foot (3,506 m) peak is located in Pike National Forest, 12.8 miles (20.6 km) southwest by west (bearing 233°) of downtown Colorado Springs in Teller County, Colorado, United States.
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Wikidata Q8536170, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3,507 m
How to reach it
- 10.1 mi off the Gold Belt Tour, National
Overlooks nearby
- Geologic Overlook · 21 mi
- The Valley Overlook · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- High Park: 2.1 mi
- Columbine Trail: 4.3 mi
- Cathedral Park: 4.4 mi
- Seven Falls Park: 4.4 mi
- Ruxton Park: 6.2 mi
- Helen Hunt Falls: 3.4 mi
- snow leopard: 5.1 mi
- Tiger: 5.2 mi
- Domestic Goats: 5.2 mi
- Giraffe Feeding Experience: 5.3 mi
- Gendron Peak: 1.6 mi
- Stove Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Mount Big Chief: 1.8 mi
- Knights Peak: 2.0 mi
- Saint Peters Dome: 2.0 mi
- Starr Kempf's Kinetic Sculptures: 5.1 mi
- Big Red Chair: 7.4 mi
- Children Holding Hands: 7.6 mi
- Trailblazer: 8.2 mi
- The Epicenter: 8.2 mi
- Nelson Camp: 1.5 mi
- Mountaineer Train Memorial: 5.3 mi
- America the Beautiful: 7.8 mi
- For the Unborn: 7.9 mi
- Welcome to Colorado Springs: 8.3 mi
- Bear Sculpture Garden: 5.2 mi
- Shipping Container Farm: 5.2 mi
- The Secret Garden: 7.7 mi
- westside community garden: 8.2 mi
- Rock Garden: 8.6 mi
- Devils Slide: 1.7 mi
- Point Sublime: 4.8 mi
- Windy Point: 5.8 mi
- Dakota Hogback: 7.2 mi
- The Gym: 16.7 mi
- Penrose Heritage Museum: 5.9 mi
- World Figure Skating Museum: 6.0 mi
- Heritage Center: 7.4 mi
- Miramont Castle: 7.4 mi
- Ghost Town Wild West Museum: 7.6 mi
- Prairie Skipper Picnic Area: 6.7 mi
- Turkey Roost Picnic Area: 6.9 mi
- Elk Run Picnic Area: 6.9 mi
- South Spring Cañon Picnic Area: 8.3 mi
- Crowe Gulch Picnic Ground: 10.4 mi
- Iron Spring: 7.2 mi
- Twin Spring: 7.4 mi
- Shoshone Spring: 7.4 mi
- Stratton Spring: 7.4 mi
- Navajo Spring: 7.4 mi
- Helen Hunt Falls: 3.4 mi
- Ramona: 4.1 mi
- Feather: 4.1 mi
- Bridal Veil: 4.1 mi
- Shorty: 4.1 mi
- Cheyenne Mountain State Park: 6.2 mi
- Promntory Point Open Space: 8.3 mi
- Concrete Coyote: 8.3 mi
- Mesa Open Space: 8.6 mi
- Mesa Wildlife Preserve: 9.0 mi
- Altman: 10.1 mi
- Lytle: 11.3 mi
- Husted: 18.0 mi
- Franceville: 19.3 mi
- Dakota Hot Springs: 23.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.4 miles of Mount Rosa. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pikes Peak | NW 319° | 4,302 m | 7.9 mi |
| Little Pikes Peak | NW 318° | 4,073 m | 8.9 mi |
| Devil's Playground | NW 319° | 3,984 m | 10.1 mi |
| Sachett Mountain | NW 318° | 3,837 m | 6.2 mi |
| Sentinel Point | NW 305° | 3,814 m | 10.3 mi |
| Almagre Mountain | NW 316° | 3,768 m | 3.6 mi |
| Mount Big Chief | SW 231° | 3,404 m | 1.8 mi |
| Cow Mountain | W 272° | 3,392 m | 7.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:04 | 18:37 | 19:12 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:49 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:48 | 18:23 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 16:00 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 27 | 33 | 38 | 46 | 56 | 60 | 58 | 53 | 43 | 33 | 26 |
| Precip in | 0.7 | 1.0 | 1.9 | 3.1 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ruxton Park, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358928758
Day trips start here
- Colorado Springs · 9 mi
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