Mount Craig is a mountain summit in Grand County, Colorado, United States.
Description Mount Craig is set west of the Continental Divide in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The mountain is situated within Rocky Mountain National Park and east of the town of Grand Lake, Colorado. Precipitation runoff from the mountain's slopes drains to Grand Lake via East Inlet. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above East Inlet in .
Etymology The mountain is named after Reverend William Bayard Craig (1848–1916), the same person that the town of Craig, Colorado, is named for.William Bright, Colorado Place Names, 2004, Johnson Books, , page 45. Rev. Craig owned lakeshore property at Grand Lake during the 1880s.Suzanne Silverthorn (2015), Around Rocky Mountain National Park, Arcadia Publishing Incorporated, , p. 110. The mountain's toponym was officially adopted in 1932 by the United States Board on Geographic Names.
Climate According to the Köppen climate classification system, Mount Craig is located in an alpine subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and cool to warm summers. Due to its altitude, it receives precipitation all year, as snow in winter and as thunderstorms in summer, with a dry period in late spring.
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See also List of peaks in Rocky Mountain National Park
References
External links Weather forecast: Mount Craig William Bayard Craig (photo): Google.com/books