Mount Bierstadt
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Mount Bierstadt is a 14,065-foot-high (4,287 m) mountain summit in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. state of Colorado. The fourteener is located in the Mount Evans Wilderness of Pike National Forest, 9.4 miles (15.1 km) south by east (bearing 171°) of the Town of Georgetown in Clear Creek County.[1][2][3][4] It was named in honor of Albert Bierstadt, an American landscape painter who made the first recorded summit of the mountain in 1863.
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Mount Bierstadt | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 14,065 ft (4,287 m)[1][2] |
Prominence | 720 ft (219 m)[3] |
Isolation | 1.12 mi (1.80 km)[3] |
Listing | Colorado Fourteener 38th |
Coordinates | 39°34′57″N 105°40′08″W[1] |
Naming | |
Etymology | Albert Bierstadt |
Geography | |
Location | Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States[4] |
Parent range | Front Range, Colorado Peaks[3] |
Topo map | USGS 7.5' topographic map Mount Evans, Colorado[1] |
Climbing | |
First ascent | 1863 Albert Bierstadt[3] |
Easiest route | West Slopes: Hike, class 2[5] |
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