Cocktail Spring
Cocktail Spring is a spring in Colorado, at a modelled elevation of 1,752 m. Mount Sopris stands 3,841 m to the south-southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Sacred Waters, a hot spring less than a tenth of a mile away. 147 named places lie within 25 miles, 59 of them named summits.
What to expect
- Access
- employees
How to reach it
147 named places within 25 miles
- Lookout Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Storm King Mountain: 5.0 mi
- Horse Mountain: 6.4 mi
- Flatiron Mountain: 8.5 mi
- Baxter Peak: 8.6 mi
- Centennial Park: 0.3 mi
- A E Axtell Park: 0.5 mi
- Two Rivers Park: 0.5 mi
- Veltus Park: 0.6 mi
- Sayre Park: 1.1 mi
- Sacred Waters: 0.0 mi
- Sacred Waters: 0.0 mi
- Yampah Source Spring: 0.0 mi
- Glenwood Hot Springs Grand Pool: 0.1 mi
- South Canyon Hot Springs: 4.7 mi
- Windy Point: 5.0 mi
- Windy Point: 14.0 mi
- The Slides: 14.0 mi
- Meadow Creek Point: 17.5 mi
- Deep Creek Point: 18.0 mi
- Frontier Historical Society Museum: 0.5 mi
- Powers Art Center: 11.2 mi
- New Castle Historical Museum: 11.4 mi
- Silt Historical Museum: 17.7 mi
- Rifle Heritage Museum: 24.5 mi
- CDOT Rest Area: No Name: 1.8 mi
- Grizzly Creek: 3.8 mi
- CDOT Rest Area: Hanging Lake: 7.5 mi
- CDOT Rest Area: Rifle: 24.8 mi
- Doc Holliday Grave: 0.7 mi
- Kid Curry Grave: 0.8 mi
- Pope Saint John Paul II: 1.2 mi
- Broken Rib Spring: 10.0 mi
- Deep Lake Spring: 15.5 mi
- The Peace Garden: 11.9 mi
- Community Garden: 12.0 mi
- The Blessed Virgin Mary: 24.1 mi
- Cross and Statue at Entrance: 24.1 mi
- Carbonate: 13.4 mi
- Deep Lake Day Use: 15.4 mi
- Rifle Falls: 21.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Cocktail Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Sopris | SSE 157° | 3,841 m | 21.7 mi |
| W Mountain | NNE 24° | 3,624 m | 24.5 mi |
| Turret Peak | NNE 17° | 3,498 m | 23.4 mi |
| Blair Mountain | NNW 343° | 3,492 m | 17.6 mi |
| Timber Mountain | N 355° | 3,476 m | 23.9 mi |
| White River Plateau | NNW 347° | 3,466 m | 14.4 mi |
| Hunns Peak | N 358° | 3,420 m | 16.5 mi |
| Baxter Peak | N 1° | 3,409 m | 8.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:46 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 20:00 | 20:41 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:33 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:27 | 16:07 | 16:49 |
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 | 24 | 30 | 40 | 46 | 55 | 64 | 71 | 69 | 61 | 49 | 36 | 26 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 1.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Glenwood Spgs #2, under a mile away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: May–Jul — fullest in Jun, leanest in Feb.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 470 | 445 | 504 | 814 | 2,114 | 3,808 | 2,070 | 927 | 730 | 706 | 624 | 528 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Roaring Fork River AT Glenwood Springs, Co., under a mile away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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