![Redcloud Peak Summit Colorado](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Redcloud_Peak_Summit_Colorado.jpg)
Redcloud Peak is a mountain peak of over
fourteen thousand feet in the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sove ...
of
Colorado
Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the wes ...
. It is located in the
San Juan Mountains
The San Juan Mountains is a high and rugged mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico. The area is highly mineralized (the Colorado Mineral Belt) and figured in the gold and silver mining industry ...
in
Hinsdale County approximately 7 miles (11 km) south west of
Lake City.
Historical names
*Red Mountain
*Redcloud Peak – 1906
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See also
*List of mountain peaks of Colorado
This is a list of major mountain peaks in the U.S. State of Colorado.
This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a m ...
*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 co ...
References
External links
Redcloud Peak and Sunshine Peak on 14ers.com
Redcloud Peak at Colorado Fourteeners Initiative
San Juan Mountains (Colorado)
Mountains of Hinsdale County, Colorado
Fourteeners of Colorado
North American 4000 m summits
Mountains of Colorado
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