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18 Mountain Peaks to Explore in Gunnison County

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Gunnison County
Gunnison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. There aren’t many towns around, making it an ideal place to get away. The surrounding area is filled with year-round recreation in the great outdoors. The town sits at 7,703 feet and had a population of 6,560 in 2020.

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Mountain Peaks to Explore in Gunnison County

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Carbon Peak
Carbon Peak, is a summit in the West Elk Mountains of Colorado. The peak is southwest of Crested Butte in the Gunnison National Forest. Carbon Peak is one of several prominent laccoliths found in the West Elk Mountains. It is a good trekking destination and also there are so many things to see and do here.
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Chair Mountain
Chair mountain is a majestic mountain gang which overlooks some of Colorado’s most picturesque mountain terrain. Undoubtedly, Chair Mountain is the McClure Pass showpiece and everything else is just details. This is the land where purple, maroon, grey, and shinning white rocks rise above alpine carpets of lush iridescent green and vast tracts of gigantic aspen. Common sights include 5,000-ft of steep mountainous relief, crystal clear rivers negotiating box canyons and so more.
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Collegiate Peaks Wilderness
The Collegiate Peaks Wilderness is a 168,000-acre area located in central Colorado between Leadville and Buena Vista to the east and Aspen to the west and Crested Butte to the southwest. There are numerous alpine creeks in the area's wide valleys and these are all quite marshy. Snow does not usually begin to melt until May or June and it remains year-round in places on some of the high peaks.
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Crested Butte Mountain Resort
Crested Butte Mountain Resort is located in southwest Colorado, within the Gunnison National Forest and the Elk Mountain Range. Known for offering extreme and diverse terrain, the mountain is considered one of the birthplaces of freeskiing It has abundant green and blue groomed trails to more advanced longer trails and the famous extreme limits of the North Face and Headwall. The mountain also features three slope-side restaurants accessible via lift.
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East Beckwith Mountain
East Beckwith Mountain is a laccolith, formed when magma intruded into Mancos Shale approximately 30 million years ago. The 12,441-foot peak is located in the West Elk Wilderness of Gunnison National Forest. It is noted for its distinctive glacial landforms. On the north side of this elongated, east–west oriented mountain, there are five glacially carved cirques with intervening arêtes, and moraines fan out from the mountain's base.
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Fairview Peak
Fairview Peak is a high mountain peak at an elevation of 3.781m above the sea level, located in Gunnison County. The immediate area around Fairview Peak was scorched in a wildfire a few years ago and so there is a ghost forest surrounding the immediate area of the peak. There is not an established trail leading to the summit, however at the top of the peak there is a Forest Service Marker as well as a log book.
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Gothic Mountain
Gothic Mountain is a prominent mountain summit in the Elk Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. It's considered one of Colorado's finest mountain biking trails. trail starts in the East River Valley to the east of Gothic Mountain and goes to a 10980 ft saddle to the to the north of the mountain before descending into Washington Gulch to the west.
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Henry Mountain
Henry Mountain is a fairly remote summit located in the Fossil Ridge Wilderness Area. The 13,261-foot thirteener is located in the Fossil Ridge Wilderness of Gunnison National Forest. A good trekking destination and also there are so many things to see and do. It also offers nice views of this area.
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Ice Mountain
Ice Mountain is a high mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North. The 13,958-foot thirteener is located in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness, 17.1 miles west-northwestn of the Town of Buena Vista, Colorado. A good trekking destination and also there are so many things to see and do.
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Italian Mountain
Italian Mountain is a high mountain summit in the Elk Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. It was so named because the mountain's tones were said to resemble the colors of the Italian tricolor: green, white, and red. A good trekking destination and also there are so many beautiful things to see and the view form here is truly astonishing.
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Marcellina Mountain
Marcellina Mountain is a prominent mountain summit in the West Elk Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. This wilderness encompasses 176,000 acres of Gunnison National Forest, making it the fifth largest wilderness in Colorado. The volcanic ridges and long valleys of this pristine area offer an extensive selection of hiking and climbing
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Matchless Mountain
Matchless Mountain is a high mountain summit in the Elk Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. summit can be reached most easily from the west. A hike to the summit can begin where the road ends at an elevation of 11,000 feet. The summit is a 1-mile, class-2 hike southeast through subalpine forest, meadow, and alpine tundra.
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Mount Emmons
Mount Emmons is a mountain summit in the Elk Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains in north-central Gunnison County, Colorado. It isn't really rugged, but it's a massive mountain and is recognizable for miles around. The peak is a 30 mile round trip hike from the nearest road. his is a beautiful area with many lakes, meadows, wildflowers, and some rugged peaks. Solitude is usually easy to come by once you leave the popular fishing holes behind.
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Mount Gunnison
Mount Gunnison resides just inside of the northern boundary of the West Elks Wilderness, which is encompassed by the beautiful Gunnison National Forest. Mount Gunnison is also Colorado’s 13th most prominent mountain, ranking ahead of 94 of the states highest 100 mountains, including 46 fourteeners. The mountain is named in honor of John Williams Gunnison who explored the area.
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Mount Owen
Mount Owen is the highest summit of the Ruby Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,070-foot thirteener is located in Gunnison National Forest at the edge of the Raggeds Wilderness, 8.5 miles west-northwest of the Town of Crested Butte in Gunnison County, Colorado, United States. A good trekking destination and also there is so many locations to explore te catch up the beautiful views of this area.
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Tomichi Dome
Tomichi Dome rises north of U.S. Highway 50 west of Hot Springs Creek and south of Waunita Hot Springs Reservoir in the southeast quarter of Gunnison County, Colorado. It is situated within the Gunnison National Forest.Tomichi Dome has been described as an extrusive, volcanic feature where the initial eruptions deposited breccia and tuff that is over 670 feet thick. A flow or dome of topaz rhyolite overlies the tuff.
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West Elk Peak
West Elk Peak, elevation 13,042 ft, is the highest summit in the West Elk Mountains of Gunnison County, Colorado. The mountain is in the West Elk Wilderness, northwest of Gunnison. The terrain consists mostly of volcanic breccia, known in this area as West Elk Breccia, dated at 35 to 30 million years old.A good trekking destination and also you can explore some nice hisotirc locations where you can see the history of this location.
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Whetstone Mountain
The Whetstone Mountains are a dry and rugged fault-block mountain range only about 15 miles long. The only access to this mountain range is by a few unimproved four-wheel drive routes that reach some of the lower canyons. There are no roads reaching higher elevations. A single hiking trail into the heart of the mountain range is accessed from Kartchner Caverns State Park.

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