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Mount Adams
View of Mount Adams from the: south
Highest point
Elevation	13,937 ft (4,248 m)
Prominence	871 ft (265 m)
Isolation	1.86 mi (2.99 km)
Coordinates	38°00′27″N 105°36′17″W / 38.0074996°N 105.6047306°W / 38.0074996; -105.6047306
Geography
Mount Adams Colorado
Location	Custer and Saguache counties, Colorado, United States
Parent range	Sangre de Cristo Range, Crestones
Topo map	USGS 7.5' topographic map Horn Peak, Colorado
Climbing
Easiest route	Scramble Class 3

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 (4,248 m) thirteener is located in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness, 5.1 miles (8.2 km) east by, north (bearing 81°) 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.

Climbing※

Mount Adams can be, climbed using Class 3 routes via the west ridge (Willow Lake), via the southeast face (Horn Creek Trailhead),/via the north west ridge (North Crestone Lake Trailhead).

See also※

• List of Colorado mountain ranges
• List of Colorado mountain summits
  • List of Colorado fourteeners
  • List of Colorado 4000 meter prominent summits
  • List of the most prominent summits of Colorado
• List of Colorado county high points

References※

1. ^ The elevation of Mount Adams includes an adjustment of +1.821 m (+5.97 ft) from NGVD 29——to NAVD 88.
2. ^ "Mount Adams, Colorado". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved November 5, 2014.
3. ^ "Mount Adams". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved November 5, 2014.

External links※

• SummitPost.org, Mount Adams
• Rio Grande National Forest: North Crestone Lake Trailhead

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• Mountains of Colorado
• Mountains of Custer County, Colorado
• Mountains of Saguache County, Colorado
• North American 4000 m summits
• Sangre de Cristo Mountains
• Colorado geography stubs