Collegiate Peaks

The Collegiate Peaks (or Collegiate Range) is a name given to a section of the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains located in central Colorado. Drainages to the east include headwaters of the Arkansas River.

The Collegiate Peaks include some of the highest mountains in the Rockies. The section is so named because several of the mountains are named for prominent universities.

In the Arapaho language the Collegiate Peaks were called "hiwoxuu hookuhu'ee" or the Elk's Head.

Prominent peaks +Summits of the Collegiate Peaks With At Least 100 Meters of Topographic ProminenceRankMountain PeakElevationProminenceIsolation1Mount Harvard 2La Plata PeakThe elevation of this summit has been converted from the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). National Geodetic Survey3Mount Belford 4Mount Princeton 5Mount Yale 6Mount Oxford 7Mount Columbia 8Missouri Mountain 9Huron Peak 10Grizzly Peak 11Ice Mountain 12Mount Hope 13Emerald Peak 14North Apostle 15Rinker Peak 16Peak 13,762 (Silver King Peak) 17Garfield Peak 18Sayres Benchmark 19Turner Peak20Sewanee Peak

See also

Mountain peaks of Colorado Collegiate Peaks Wilderness

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