Crestone Needle, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness

Name: Crestone Needle
Address: Sangre de Cristo Wilderness, United States

#3 among attractions in Sangre de Cristo Wilderness

Natural attraction, Top attraction, Mountain

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Crestone Needle is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,203-foot fourteener is located 6.9 miles east-southeast of the Town of Crestone in Saguache County, Colorado, United States. 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. ()

Alternative names: First ascent: 1916Elevation: 14203 ftProminence: 457 ftCoordinates: 37°57'53"N, 105°34'37"W

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Sangre de Cristo Wilderness United States

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Crestone Needle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Humboldt Peak, Crestone Peak, Columbia Point, Ellingwood Ledges.

1.4 miNE
Natural attraction, Mountain
Humboldt Peak, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness
37 min walk • Humboldt Peak is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.
0.5 miW
Natural attraction, Mountain
Crestone Peak, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness
12 min walk • Crestone Peak is the seventh-highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado. The prominent 14,300-foot fourteener is the highest summit of the Crestones and the second-highest summit in the Sangre de Cristo Range after Blanca Peak.
1.5 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Columbia Point, Rio Grande National Forest
39 min walk • Columbia Point is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,986-foot thirteener is located 5.5 miles east by south of the Town of Crestone in Saguache County, Colorado, United States.
~290 ftE
Climbing
Ellingwood Ledges, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness
2 min walk • The Ellingwood Arete is a popular technical climbing route on Crestone Needle in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Range. The Ellingwood Ledges Route is recognized in the historic climbing text Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. An "arete" is "a sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains".
0.5 miNW
Natural attraction, Mountain
Crestones, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness
14 min walk • The Crestones are a group of four 14,000 foot peaks in the Sangre de Cristo Range above Crestone, central southern Colorado, comprising: Crestone Peak Crestone Needle Kit Carson Mountain Humboldt Peak Snow is usually mostly melted by early July.