Mount Adams, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness

Name: Mount Adams
Address: Sangre de Cristo Wilderness, United States

#5 among attractions in Sangre de Cristo Wilderness

Natural attraction, Mountain

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Mount Adams is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,937-foot thirteener is located in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness, 5.1 miles east by north of the Town of Crestone, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide separating San Isabel National Forest and Custer County from Rio Grande National Forest and Saguache County. ()

Elevation: 13937 ftProminence: 871 ftCoordinates: 38°0'27"N, 105°36'18"W

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Sangre de Cristo Wilderness United States

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Day trips

Mount Adams – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Willow Lake, Humboldt Peak, Crestone Needle, Kit Carson Peak.

0.9 miS
Natural attraction, Lake
Willow Lake, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness
24 min walk • Willow Lake, also known as the lower Willow Creek Lake, is an alpine lake in Saguache County, Colorado, United States, located in the Sangre de Cristo Range within the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness in Rio Grande National Forest.
3.5 miSE
Natural attraction, Mountain
Humboldt Peak, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness
89 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.
3.3 miSE
Natural attraction, Mountain
Crestone Needle, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness
85 min walk • Crestone Needle is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.
1.9 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Kit Carson Peak, Rio Grande National Forest
49 min walk • Kit Carson Peak is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.
3 miS
Natural attraction, Mountain
Crestone Peak, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness
77 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.
1.9 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Challenger Point, Rio Grande National Forest
48 min walk • Challenger Point is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.
2 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Columbia Point, Rio Grande National Forest
52 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.
3.4 miSE
Climbing
Ellingwood Ledges, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness
86 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".
5.2 miW
37°59'42"N • 105°41'60"W
Crestone Artisans Gallery, Crestone
134 min walk • Art gallery, Shopping, Museum
2.9 miS
Natural attraction, Mountain
Crestones, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness
75 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.