Mount Oxford (Colorado)

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Mount Oxford
File:Mount Oxford (Colorado) - 2006-07-16.jpg
Highest point
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Listing Colorado Fourteener
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Geography
Mount Oxford is located in Colorado
Mount Oxford
Mount Oxford
Location Chaffee County, Colorado, U.S.[4]
Parent range Sawatch Range,
Collegiate Peaks[3]
Topo map USGS 7.5' topographic map
Mount Harvard, Colorado[1]
Climbing
Easiest route Hike and scramble

Mount Oxford is a high mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,160-foot (4,316 m) fourteener is located in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 14.2 miles (22.9 km) northwest (bearing 311°) of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. The mountain was named in honor of the University of Oxford.[1][2][3][4]

Mountain

Mount Oxford lies 1.2 miles (2.0 km) east by north of the slightly higher Mount Belford. For this reason it is often climbed in combination with Mount Belford.[5]

Historical names

  • Mount Oxford [4]
  • Oxford Peak

See also

References

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