Ulysses S Grant Peak is a mountain summit located on the shared boundary of
San Juan County with
San Miguel County, in southwest
Colorado, United States.
It is situated eight miles west of the community of
Silverton, on land managed by
San Juan National Forest and
Uncompahgre National Forest. Ulysses S Grant Peak is part of the
San Juan Mountains which are a subset of the
Rocky Mountains, and is west of the
Continental Divide
A continental divide is a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea, and the basin on the other side either feeds into a different ocean or sea, or else is endorheic, not ...
. It ranks as the 119th-highest peak in Colorado,
and
topographic relief is significant as the west aspect rises in approximately one mile. The mountain's name, which has been officially adopted by the
United States Board on Geographic Names
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, was in use in an 1896 scientific publication by
Charles Whitman Cross, and listed by
Henry Gannett when he published ''A Gazetteer of Colorado'' in 1906.
[Henry Gannett, ''Gazetteer of Colorado'', 1906, US Government Printing Office, page 172.]
Climate
According to the
Köppen climate classification system, Ulysses S Grant Peak is located in an alpine
subarctic climate
The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, or boreal climate) is a climate with long, cold (often very cold) winters, and short, warm to cool summers. It is found on large landmasses, often away from the moderating effects of an ocean, ge ...
zone with long, 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. Precipitation
runoff
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from the mountain drains west into tributaries of the
San Miguel River, and east to the
Animas River
Animas River (''On-e-mas''; es, Río de las Ánimas) is a river in the western United States, a tributary of the San Juan River (Colorado River), San Juan River, part of the Colorado River, Colorado River System.
The Animas-La Plata Water Pro ...
via Mineral Creek.
See also
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Gallery
File:Ice Lakes from Fuller Lake trail.jpg, South aspect centered behind ridge and Ice Lake
"V 4" (13,540 ft) to the left
File:Ulysses S. Grant Peak centered.jpg, Ulysses S. Grant Peak centered, from the east
References
External links
* Weather forecast
Ulysses S Grant Peak* U S Grant Peak and Island Lake
Flickr photo{{Mountains of Colorado
Mountains of San Miguel County, Colorado
Mountains of San Juan County, Colorado
San Juan Mountains (Colorado)
Mountains of Colorado
North American 4000 m summits
San Juan National Forest
Uncompahgre National Forest