Devils Head is a
mountain
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summit
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in the
Rampart Range
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of the
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of
Colorado
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. The peak is located in
Pike National Forest
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, southwest by south (
bearing 210°) of the community of
Sedalia in
Douglas County,
Colorado
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,
United States
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Mountain
Devils Head is topped by the Devil's Head Lookout
Devil's Head Lookout is a U.S. Forest Service fire lookout tower at the summit of Devils Head in Douglas County, Colorado. Located on a large pinnacle of Pikes Peak granite, the fire lookout point lies within the Pike National Forest and is ac ...
, an active United States Forest Service
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fire lookout tower
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. Access to the summit and lookout tower is via the Devils Head National Recreation Trail
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Devils Head name comes from prospectors of the late 1800s. From the southwest of Devils Head, and looking northeast toward the mountain, one can see a shape of a face laying flat, as if the mountain was looking up. Some of the forest has softened the looks, as there used to be a more obvious eye socket, and facial features. However, from this angle, one is still able to see the face and even horns.
Historical names
*The Sleeping Indian
*Camels Back
*Devils Head – 1923 [
*Platte Mountain
*Warrens Crag
]
See also
* List of Colorado mountain ranges
* List of Colorado mountain summits
**List of Colorado fourteeners
This is a list of mountain peaks in the U.S. State of Colorado that exceed of elevation.
In the mountaineering parlance of the Western United States, a ''fourteener'' is a mountain peak with an elevation of at least 14,000 feet. This is a c ...
** List of Colorado 4000 meter prominent summits
**List of the most prominent summits of Colorado
The following sortable table comprises the 100 Topographic prominence, most topographically prominent Summit, mountain peaks of the United States, U.S. Colorado, State of Colorado.
Elevation, Topographic elevation is the vertical distance abov ...
*List of Colorado county high points
This is a list of all 64 counties of the U.S. State of Colorado by their points of highest elevation. Of the 50 highest county high points in the United States, 30 are located in Colorado. The highest point in Colorado is the summit of Mount ...
References
External links
Devil's Head Trailhead #611 (Devil's Head National Recreation Trail) on Pike National Forest WebsiteDevils Head on listsofjohn.orgDevils Head on peakery.comDevils Head on summitpost.org
Mountains of Colorado
Mountains of Douglas County, Colorado
Pike National Forest
North American 2000 m summits
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