Mount Sopris
Mount Sopris rises to 3,841 m in Colorado. Maroon Peak stands 4,317 m to the southeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Penny Hot Springs, a hot spring 3.9 miles away.
The story
Mount Sopris is a twin-summit mountain in the northwestern Elk Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 12,965-foot (3,952 m) mountain is located in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness of White River National Forest, 6.6 miles (10.7 km) north by northeast (bearing 30°) of the community of Redstone in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States.
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Wikidata Q6923754, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3841 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- McCartney Mesa: 5.4 mi
- Holgate Mesa: 6.8 mi
- Haystack Mountain: 7.1 mi
- Mount Daly: 8.0 mi
- Capitol Peak: 8.8 mi
- Redstone Park: 6.7 mi
- Grace Shehi Bike Park: 9.3 mi
- Triangle Park: 9.4 mi
- Linear Park: 9.4 mi
- Hendrick Dog Park: 9.7 mi
- Penny Hot Springs: 3.9 mi
- Penny Hot Springs: 4.0 mi
- Yampah Source Spring: 21.6 mi
- Sacred Waters: 21.6 mi
- Sacred Waters: 21.6 mi
- Redstone Museum: 6.7 mi
- Powers Art Center: 11.1 mi
- Marble Museum: 13.2 mi
- Holden/Marolt Mining & Ranching Museum: 18.3 mi
- Wheeler/Stallard House Museum: 18.6 mi
- Redstone Coke Oven Historic District: 6.9 mi
- Crystal Mill: 14.3 mi
- Pope Saint John Paul II: 20.6 mi
- Kid Curry Grave: 20.9 mi
- Doc Holliday Grave: 21.0 mi
- North Mesa: 13.1 mi
- Sky Mountain Park: 14.2 mi
- Moore Open Space: 17.7 mi
- Marolt Open Space: 18.2 mi
- Aspen Center for Environmental Studies: 19.0 mi
- Seven Castles: 13.9 mi
- The Slides: 16.1 mi
- The Raggeds: 17.4 mi
- Lower Buttressess: 17.5 mi
- East Face: 17.5 mi
- Crystal River Jeep Tours: 13.2 mi
- Breathtaker: 13.3 mi
- Maze: 18.6 mi
- Ashcroft Ghost Town: 24.2 mi
- Hayes Creek Falls: 8.5 mi
- Devil’s Punch Bowl: 15.4 mi
- Judd Falls: 23.1 mi
- Grizzly Creek: 21.2 mi
- CDOT Rest Area: No Name: 21.7 mi
- CDOT Rest Area: Hanging Lake: 22.7 mi
- Community Garden: 9.8 mi
- The Peace Garden: 10.0 mi
- Emerald Lake: 18.6 mi
- Erickson Springs Picnic Site: 21.8 mi
- Cocktail Spring: 21.7 mi
- Erickson Springs: 22.1 mi
- Chromatic Gate: 18.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.9 miles of Mount Sopris. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maroon Peak | SE 144° | 4,317 m | 16.2 mi |
| Capitol Peak | SSE 150° | 4,309 m | 8.8 mi |
| Snowmass Mountain | SSE 152° | 4,297.3 m | 11.2 mi |
| Pyramid Peak | SE 139° | 4,274.7 m | 17.4 mi |
| North Maroon Peak | SE 143° | 4,261 m | 15.9 mi |
| Hagerman Peak | SSE 151° | 4,211 m | 11.7 mi |
| Clark Peak | SE 144° | 4,137 m | 9.3 mi |
| Snowmass Peak | SSE 151° | 4,102 m | 11.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:46 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:59 | 20:39 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:26 | 16:07 | 16:50 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 22 | 25 | 34 | 41 | 50 | 60 | 65 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 32 | 22 |
| Precip in | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Aspen Pitkin CO AP Sardy FLD, 16 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358909573
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