Kit Carson Avenue with a climber descending.Kit Carson Peak as seen from the saddle between it and Challenger Point.
Kit Carson Peak is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. Officially designated Kit Carson Mountain, the 14,171-foot (4,319 m) fourteener is located 5.2 miles (8.4 km) east by south (bearing 102°) of the Town of Crestone in Saguache County, Colorado, United States.[1][2][3] The name Kit Carson Mountain is used for both the massif with three summits (Columbia Point, Kit Carson Peak and Challenger Point), or to describe the main summit only. The mountain is named in honor of frontiersman Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson. The Crestones are a cluster of high summits in the Sangre de Cristo Range, comprising Crestone Peak, Crestone Needle, Kit Carson Peak, Challenger Point, Humboldt Peak, and Columbia Point. They are usually accessed from common trailheads.
^ abThe elevation of Kit Carson Mountain includes an adjustment of +1.773 m (+5.82 ft) from NGVD 29 to NAVD 88.
^ abcde"Kit Carson Mountain, Colorado". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved October 20, 2014.
^ abcd"Kit Carson Mountain". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved October 20, 2014.
KitCarsonPeak is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. Officially designated...
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Sangre de Cristo Range, comprising Crestone Peak, Crestone Needle, KitCarsonPeak, Challenger Point, Humboldt Peak, and Columbia Point. They are usually accessed...
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of Carson City, Nevada. The river is named for KitCarson, who guided John C. Frémont's expedition westward up the Carson Valley and across Carson Pass...
counties. Wheeler Peak, the highest mountain in New Mexico at 13,161 feet (4,011 m), is located in the National Forest. Within the Carson National Forest...
of the twenty highest peaks in the Rocky Mountains, including Mount Elbert, at 14,440 feet (4,401 m) elevation, the highest peak in the Rockies. The range...
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and abandoned mines that place the area in historical context. Below the peak, the surrounding hills are high desert, covered in sagebrush. Among the sagebrush...
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lighter-colored igneous intrusions are visible on the ridges extending below the peak. The building of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains during the Paleozoic and the...
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