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Website. www.parachutecolorado.com. The Town of Parachute is a home rule municipality in Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1,390 at the 2020 census. [6] The town is the birthplace of Willard Libby, recipient of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
The Town of Winter Park, Colorado has the highest elevation within the municipal boundaries of any town in the United States at 12,060 feet (3,676 m). The "Mile-High City" of Denver, the Colorado state capital, is only the 170th highest of the 273 Colorado municipalities. While the Town of Holly, Colorado is the lowest municipality in Colorado ...
2407805 [1] Battlement Mesa is a census-designated place (CDP) and post office in and governed by Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Glenwood Springs, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. The Battlement Mesa post office has the ZIP Codes 81635 and 81636 (for post office boxes). [4]
USGS 7.5' topographic map. Battle Rock, Colorado [1] Ute Mountain, also known as Ute Peak or Sleeping Ute Mountain (/ ˈjuːt /; Ute: Wisuv Káruv, Navajo: Dził Naajiní), is a peak within the Ute Mountains, a small mountain range in the southwestern corner of Colorado. It is on the northern edge of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Reservation.
Battlement Mesa[1] is a large prominent mesa in western Colorado in the United States. It sits along the Garfield - Mesa county line, between the Colorado River to the north and Plateau Creek to the south. It is visible south of Interstate 70, visible between the towns of Rifle and Parachute, stretching for approximately 15 miles (24 km) east-west.
Grand Mesa. Coordinates: 39°1′36″N 108°4′53″W. A view north across Grand Mesa National Forest. The Grand Mesa is a large mesa in western Colorado in the United States. It is the largest flat-topped mountain in the world. [1] It has an area of about 500 square miles (1,300 km 2) and stretches for about 40 miles (60 km) east of Grand ...
39°26′23″N 108°03′13″W / 39.43972°N 108.05361°W / 39.43972; -108.05361 [1] • elevation. 5,056 ft (1,541 m) [1] Parachute Creek is a 14.7-mile-long (23.7 km) [3] tributary of the Colorado River in Garfield County, Colorado. The confluence with the Colorado is just south of the community of Parachute and east of U.S ...
3. Blanca Peak is the highest peak of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and the second most topographically isolated peak of Colorado. 4. Culebra Peak is the southernmost 14,000-foot summit of the Rocky Mountains. 5. Crestone Peak is the highest peak of the Crestones and the seventh highest peak of the Rocky Mountains.