Mount Elbert Mount Elbert Mount Elbert is the highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the highest point in the U.S. state of Colorado and the entire Mississippi River drainage basin. The ultra-prominent fourteener is the highest peak in the Sawatch Range and the second-highest summit in the contiguous United States after Mount Whitney. Mount Elbert is located in San Isabel National Forest, southwest (bearing 223°) of the City of Leadville in Lake County, Colorado. The mountain was named in honor of a Colorado statesman, Samuel Hitt Elbert, who was active in the formative period of the state and
Bare Mountain Range (Nevada) the Amargosa Valley along the south edge of the range and turns at Beatty to continue north through Oasis Valley. The highest peak of the range is Bare Mountain, of the same name, at . In the southeast of the range, Wildcat Peak rises to Bare Mountain Range was descriptively named for the bare summits. Bare Mountain Range (Nevada) The Bare Mountain Range is a mountain range in southern Nye County, Nevada, in the United States. Bare Mountain and Wildcat Peak are the high points of the range. The Bare Mountain Range is a short range, about long, trending northwest