Mount Sneffels

Mount Sneffels
Mount Sneffels
	View of Mount Sneffels from the north
Highest point
Elevation	14,150 ft (4315.4 m); NAVD88
Prominence	3050 ft (930 m)
Isolation	15.71 mi (25.3 km)
Listing	North America highest peaks 51st; US highest major peaks 37th; Colorado highest major peaks 18th; Colorado fourteeners 27th; Colorado county high points 16th;
Coordinates	38°00′14″N 107°47′32″W / 38.0038357°N 107.7923478°WCoordinates: 38°00′14″N 107°47′32″W / 38.0038357°N 107.7923478°W
Geography
	Mount Sneffels Colorado
Location	High point of Ouray County, Colorado, United States
Parent range	San Juan Mountains, Highest summit of the Sneffels Range
Topo map	USGS 7.5' topographic map; Mount Sneffels, Colorado

Mount Sneffels is the highest summit of the Sneffels Range in the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 14,158-foot (4315.4 m) fourteener is located in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness of Uncompahgre National Forest, 6.7 miles (10.8 km) west by south (bearing 256°) of the City of Ouray in Ouray County, Colorado, United States. The summit of Mount Sneffels is the highest point in Ouray County.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Mountain[]

Mount Sneffels is notable for its great vertical relief, as it rises 7,200 feet above the town of Ridgway, Colorado 6 miles to the northeast.

The primary route to the summit follows a creek bed up from Yankee Boy Basin. A secondary route follows a ridge line to the summit from the saddle of .

Mount Sneffels was named after the volcano Snæfell, which is located on the tip of the Snæfellsnes peninsula in Iceland. That mountain and its glacier, Snæfellsjökull, which caps the crater like a convex lens, were featured in the Jules Verne novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth. An area on the western flank of Mount Sneffels gives the appearance of volcanic crater.^{[citation needed]}

Seen from the Dallas Divide on State Highway 62, Mount Sneffels is one of the most photographed mountains in Colorado.^{[citation needed]}

Panorama of the Sneffels Range of the San Juan Mountains, photographed from Dallas Divide pass

Historical names[]

Mount Blaine
Mount Sneffels – 1906 ^[4]
Sneffels Peak

References[]

^ http://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/gmug/recarea/?recid=80858
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "SNEFFLES". NGS data sheet. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Mount Sneffels, Colorado". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Mount Sneffels". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved November 14, 2014.

External links[]

Mount Sneffels on 14ers.com

[1] ttp://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/gmug/recarea/?recid=80858

[NGS-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "SNEFFLES". NGS data sheet. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. Retrieved January 6, 2016.

[PB-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Mount Sneffels, Colorado". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved January 6, 2016.

[GNIS-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Mount Sneffels". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved November 14, 2014.

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