	Feet
Denver	5,250
Golden	6,200
Central City	8,300
Idaho	7,800
Georgetown	8,450
Caribou	9,200
Boulder	5,550
Greeley	4,750
Cheyenne	6,041
Colorado City	6,350
Pueblo	4,400
Trinidad	5,800
Tarryall	9,900
Fairplay	10,000
Twin Lakes	9,000
Hot Springs in Middle Park	7,700
Boulder Pass	11,700
Berthoud Pass	11,020
Argentine Pass	13,000
Breckinridge Pass	11,000
Long’s Peak	14,300
Gray’s Peak	14,251
Mount Lincoln	14,300
Mount Harvard	14,270
Mount Yale	14,078
Pike’s Peak	14,216
Summit of Divide where Rio Grande Railway crosses	7,040

The extreme limit of timber-growth in this region is usually about 11,000 feet above the sea, though, upon favourable exposures, it occasionally extends some hundreds of feet higher. Elevations above that altitude all come under the common term of ‘snowy range,’ or ‘snowy peaks;’ and they hold more or less snow upon them all the year round. They number, in Colorado, thousands of peaks, and hundreds of them are of about the average height of the highest enumerated. It is doubtful whether the loftiest have ever yet been measured. Lakelets for ever covered with ice are common among their craggy summits.

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