Blanca Peak

Blanca Peak is the fourth highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado. The ultra-prominent 14,351-foot peak is the highest summit of the Sierra Blanca Massif, the Sangre de Cristo Range, and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The fourteener is located 9.6 miles north by east of the Town of Blanca, on the drainag…
Blanca Peak is the fourth highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado. The ultra-prominent 14,351-foot peak is the highest summit of the Sierra Blanca Massif, the Sangre de Cristo Range, and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The fourteener is located 9.6 miles north by east of the Town of Blanca, on the drainage divide separating Rio Grande National Forest and Alamosa County from the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant and Costilla County. The summit is the highest point of both counties and the entire drainage basin of the Rio Grande. Below the steep North Face of Blanca Peak two live Glaciers once developed, until extinction sometime after 1903. North & South Blanca Glaciers were located at 37° 35N.,longitude 105° 28W. Blanca Peak is higher than any point in the United States east of its longitude.
  • Elevation: 14,351 ft (4374 m) · NAVD88
  • Prominence: 5326 ft (1623 m)
  • Isolation: 103.4 mi (166.4 km)
  • Listing: North America highest peaks 33rd · US highest major peaks 19th · US most prominent peaks 103rd · US most isolated peaks 49th · Colorado highest major peaks 4th · Colorado fourteeners 4th · Colorado county high points 3rd
  • Parent range: Highest summit of the · Sangre de Cristo Mountains · Sangre de Cristo Range, and · Sierra Blanca Massif
  • Topo map: USGS 7.5' topographic map · Blanca Peak, Colorado
  • First ascent: August 14, 1874 by the Wheeler Survey (first recorded)
Data from: en.wikipedia.org