Collegiate Peaks Explained

Collegiate Peaks
Other Name:	central Sawatch Range
Country:	United States
State:	Colorado
Region Type:	County
Parent:	Sawatch Range, Rocky Mountains
Area Mi2:	587
Length Mi:	34
Length Orientation:	W-E
Width Mi:	30
Width Orientation:	N-S
Highest:	Mount Harvard
Elevation Ft:	14427
Coordinates:	38.9244°N -106.3208°W

The Collegiate Peaks (or Collegiate Range^[1]) is a name given to a section of the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains located in central Colorado. Drainages to the east include headwaters of the Arkansas River.

The Collegiate Peaks include some of the highest mountains in the Rockies. The section is so named because several of the mountains are named for prominent universities.

In the Arapaho language the Collegiate Peaks were called "hiwoxuu hookuhu'ee" or the Elk's Head.^[2]

Prominent peaks

Summits of the Collegiate Peaks With At Least 100 Meters of Topographic Prominence!Rank!Mountain Peak!Elevation!Prominence!Isolation

1
2	La Plata Peak^[3]
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4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19	Turner Peak
20	Sewanee Peak

See also

• Mountain peaks of Colorado
• Collegiate Peaks Wilderness

External links

• 14652 . Collegiate Peaks.

Notes and References

1. Web site: U.S. Board on Geographic Names.
2. Web site: 2020-07-24 . Colorado Places: Their Native American Names . 2024-01-12 . Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies (CNAIS) . en.
3. The elevation of this summit has been converted from the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). National Geodetic Survey