Mount Sneffels
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| Mount Sneffels | |
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 View of Mount Sneffels from the north |
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| Elevation | 14,150 ft (4,312 m) |
| Location | Colorado, United States |
| Range | San Juan Mountains |
| Coordinates | 38°00′14″N 107°47′32″W / 38.00389°N 107.79222°W |
| Topo map | USGS Mount Sneffels |
Mount Sneffels is a fourteen thousand foot mountain peak in the U.S. state of Colorado. It is located in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness of the northern San Juan Mountains, in Ouray County approximately 5 miles (8 km) west of the town of Ouray. The summit of Mount Sneffels is the highest point in Ouray County.
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 Blue Lakes Pass.
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]
[edit] See also
- Colorado 4000 meter peaks
- List of Colorado fourteeners
- Mountain peaks of Colorado
- Mountain peaks of North America
- Mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountains
- Mountain peaks of the United States
- Mountain ranges of Colorado
- San Juan Mountains
- Southern Rocky Mountains
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