Lead Mountain is a summit in Grand County, Colorado, in the United States. With an elevation of 12,546 feet (3,824 m), Lead Mountain is the 970th-highest summit in the state of Colorado. Lead Mountain was named in 1879 on account of its lead deposits.
Lead Mountain is situated on the Continental Divide along the boundary shared by Grand County and Jackson County. It is part of the Never Summer Mountains which are a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. The mountain is situated on the western boundary of Rocky Mountain National Park, and the west side of the peak is in the Never Summer Wilderness, on land managed by Medicine Bow–Routt National Forest. Precipitation runoff from the mountain's west slope drains into tributaries of the Michigan River and the east slope drains into headwaters of the Colorado River. 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.
By elevation Lead Mountain is
# 52 out of 174 in Grand County # 53 out of 146 in Rocky Mountain National Park # 8 out of 87 in Jackson County # 6 out of 19 in Never Summer Wilderness Area # 8 out of 31 in the Never Summer Mountains
By prominence Lead Mountain is
# 71 out of 174 in Grand County # 43 out of 146 in Rocky Mountain National Park # 45 out of 87 in Jackson County # 7 out of 19 in Never Summer Wilderness Area # 11 out of 31 in the Never Summer Mountains
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