Mountain range in Wyoming and Colorado, United States
For the 1952 American Western film, see Laramie Mountains (film).
Laramie Mountains
Southern face of Laramie Peak
Highest point
Peak
South Bald Mountain
Elevation
11,007 ft (3,355 m)
Listing
Mountain ranges of Colorado
Geography
The Laramie Mountains are shown highlighted in pink on a map of the western U.S.
Country
United States
States
Wyoming and Colorado
Parent range
Rocky Mountains
The Laramie Mountains are a range of moderately high peaks on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S states of Wyoming and Colorado. The range is the northernmost extension of the line of the ranges along the eastern side of the Rockies, and in particular of the higher peaks of the Front Range directly to the south. North of the range, the gap between the Laramie range and the Bighorn Mountains provided the route for historical trails, such as the Oregon Trail, the Mormon Trail, and the Pony Express.
The Laramie Mountains begin in northern Colorado and extend discontinuously into southeastern Wyoming between Cheyenne and Laramie and northward to Casper. (By some definitions the Laramies are only in Wyoming.) They are named after the Laramie River, which cuts through the range from southwest to northeast and joins the North Platte River east of the range in eastern Wyoming. The mountains in turn give their name to the Laramide orogeny, the uplift of the North American Plate approximately 70 million years ago that created the present Rocky Mountains.
The highest portions of the Laramie mountains are mostly in public ownership, forming part of the Medicine Bow-Routt and Roosevelt National Forests.
The LaramieMountains are a range of moderately high peaks on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S states of Wyoming and Colorado. The range...
named "Laramie" in his honor, and later settlers used this name for the LaramieMountains, the fort, and the towns of Laramie, Wyoming and Fort Laramie, Wyoming...
the LaramieMountains, in northern Albany County. It flows south, then east-northeast and east, emerging from the mountains and joining the Laramie River...
tributary of the Laramie River in southeastern Wyoming in the United States. The stream rises northeast of Laramie, in the LaramieMountains in eastern Albany...
the way, reaching the Rocky Mountains. Mark Twain wrote 1871 in his book Roughing It about the hill: "We passed Fort Laramie in the night, and on the seventh...
Mountains near Red Buttes (roughly ten miles south of Laramie) in the north and straddling the Laramie River not far from the future site of Laramie in...
range sits west of Laramie, in Albany and Carbon counties to the route of the Union Pacific Railroad and U.S. Interstate 80. The mountains often serve as...
syenites of the Laramie Anorthosite Complex and granite intrude into rocks of the Colorado orogen in the Laramie and adjacent Medicine Bow Mountains. Both the...
Reservoir. It flows northeast through the LaramieMountains. Emerging from the mountains, it receives the North Laramie River 5 miles (8 km) north of Wheatland...
La Ramée (anglicized to Laramie), including the Laramie River, the city of Laramie, Fort Laramie, Laramie Peak, and Laramie County. Laramidia, an island...
Casper Mountain, an anticline, is located at the north end of the LaramieMountains overlooking Casper, Wyoming along the North Platte River. At a top...
easternmost extent of the mountain-building represented by the Black Hills of South Dakota. The phenomenon is named for the LaramieMountains of eastern Wyoming...
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The Front Range is a mountain range of the Southern Rocky Mountains of North America located in the central portion of the U.S. State of Colorado, and...
Lodgepole Creek, across the LaramieMountains, and Laramie Plains, before joining the Overland Trail at the Little Laramie Station. Camp Walbach was located...
A mountain chain is a row of high mountain summits, a linear sequence of interconnected or related mountains, or a contiguous ridge of mountains within...
Deseret Peak is the highest point of the Stansbury Mountains. The elevation of LaramieMountains high point includes an adjustment of +1.415 m (4.64 ft)...
northeast between the Granite Mountains to the west and the LaramieMountains to the east. The North Platte emerges from the mountains near Casper, where it turns...
The Bighorn Mountains (Crow: Basawaxaawúua, lit. 'our mountains' or Iisaxpúatahchee Isawaxaawúua, 'bighorn sheep's mountains') are a mountain range in northern...
extends more than 200 km across central Wyoming in the Granite and the LaramieMountains. Stratigraphic revision and remapping of the Mathinna Supergroup between...
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