3-743: Mount Zirkel is the highest summit of the Park Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America . The prominent 12,185-foot (3,714 m) peak is located in the Mount Zirkel Wilderness of Routt National Forest , 25.9 miles (41.7 km) north-northeast ( bearing 19°) of the City of Steamboat Springs , Colorado , United States , on the Continental Divide between Jackson and Routt counties . Mount Zirkel
6-518: Is the vertical distance above the reference geoid , a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface. The topographic prominence of a summit is the elevation difference between that summit and the highest or key col to a higher summit. The topographic isolation of a summit is the minimum great-circle distance to a point of equal elevation. All elevations in this article include an elevation adjustment from
9-478: Was named in honor of German geologist Ferdinand Zirkel . This Colorado state location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . List of mountain ranges of Colorado#Mountain ranges All the major mountain ranges in the state of Colorado , United States, are considered subranges of the Southern Rocky Mountains . As given in the table, topographic elevation
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