| Never Summer Peak | |
| Elevation Ft: | 12452 |
| Elevation Ref: | [1] |
| Prominence Ft: | 278 |
| Isolation Mi: | 0.82 |
| Parent Peak: | Bowen Mountain (12,524 ft) |
| Country: | United States |
| State: | Colorado |
| Region: | Grand / Jackson |
| Region Type: | County |
| Part Type: | Protected area |
| Part: | Never Summer Wilderness[2] |
| Range: | Rocky Mountains Never Summer Mountains |
| Map: | Colorado#USA |
| Label Position: | right |
| Coordinates: | 40.372°N -105.9373°W |
| Topo: | USGS Bowen Mountain |
| Rock: | Hornblende Gneiss, Amphibolite[3] |
| Age: | Paleoproterozoic |
| Type: | Fault block |
| Easiest Route: | hiking class 2 |
Never Summer Peak is a 12452feet mountain summit in Colorado, United States.
Never Summer Peak is situated on the Continental Divide along the boundary shared by Grand County and Jackson County.[1] The west side of the peak is in the Medicine Bow–Routt National Forest and the east side is in the Never Summer Wilderness. Precipitation runoff from the mountain's west slope drains into headwaters of the Illinois River, with the east slope draining to the Colorado River via Baker Gulch. The counterintuitive direction of water flow is because the Continental Divide forms a loop in this area, whereby the peak's west slope runoff flows to the Atlantic Ocean and the east slope to the Pacific. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 2050abbr=offNaNabbr=off above Baker Gulch in 1miles and 1050abbr=offNaNabbr=off above Parika Lake in 0.6miles. The mountain's toponym has not been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names.[4]
According to the Köppen climate classification system, Never Summer Peak is located in an alpine subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and cool to warm summers.[5] 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.