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Pyramid Peak

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4 274 m

Elevation

Elevation is the altitude of a place
above sea level.

499 m

Prominence

Peak’s prominence is the least
vertical to be covered to get from the
summit to any other higher terrain.

Proportional Prominence 3 260 m

14er

Mountains higher than 14 ⁠000 ⁠ft / 4 ⁠267 ⁠m with at least 300 ⁠ft / 91 ⁠m of topographic prominence.

About

Pyramid Peak is a fourteen-thousand-foot mountain in the U.S. state of Colorado. It is the 47th highest mountain peak in Colorado, and 78th highest peak in the United States. It is located in the Elk Mountains in southeastern Pitkin County, approximately 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Aspen. The summit somewhat resembles a ragged square pyramid and is visible from the Roaring Fork River valley north of Aspen along the canyon of Maroon Creek.

Like many of the peaks in the Elks, Pyramid Peak is quite steep, especially compared to more gentle fourteeners such as Mount Elbert. For example, the peak's summit rises 4,000 feet (1,200 m) above Crater Lake to the northwest in only 1.2 miles (1.9 km), and 4,400 feet (1,300 m) above East Maroon Creek to the east of the peak in the same horizontal distance.

By elevation Pyramid Peak is

# 100 out of 91437 in USA
# 53 out of 4045 in Colorado
# 7 out of 83 in Pitkin County
# 7 out of 41 in Maroon Bells–Snowmass Wilderness Area
# 7 out of 382 in the Elk Range
# 53 out of 4253 in the Southern Rocky Mountains

By prominence Pyramid Peak is

# 6 out of 83 in Pitkin County
# 4 out of 41 in Maroon Bells–Snowmass Wilderness Area
# 26 out of 382 in the Elk Range