Mount Belford

Mount Belford
Highest point
Elevation 14,203 ft (4,329 m)[1][2]
Prominence 1,337 ft (408 m)[3]
Isolation 3.30 mi (5.31 km)[3]
Parent peak Mount Harvard[3]
Listing Colorado Fourteener 19th
Coordinates 38°57′38″N 106°21′39″W / 38.9606876°N 106.360707°W / 38.9606876; -106.360707Coordinates: 38°57′38″N 106°21′39″W / 38.9606876°N 106.360707°W / 38.9606876; -106.360707[1]
Geography
Mount Belford
Location Chaffee County, Colorado, U.S.[4]
Parent range Sawatch Range,
Collegiate Peaks[3]
Topo map USGS 7.5' topographic map
Mount Harvard, Colorado[1]
Climbing
Easiest route Hike

Mount Belford is a high mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,203-foot (4,329 m) fourteener is located in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 15.0 miles (24.1 km) northwest by west (bearing 307°) of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States.[1][2][3][4]

Climbing

Mount Belford lies near Mount Oxford and Missouri Mountain, and is often climbed in conjunction with one or both of these peaks.[5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "MT BELFORD". NGS data sheet. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. Retrieved October 20, 2014.
  2. 1 2 The elevation of Mount Belford includes an adjustment of +2.081 m (+6.83 ft) from NGVD 29 to NAVD 88.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Mount Belford, Colorado". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved October 20, 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Mount Belford". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  5. Louis W. Dawson II (1996). Dawson's Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, Volume 1. Blue Clover Press. ISBN 0-9628867-1-8.
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