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Mount Sneffels
- Easiest route
- 1.6 km+518 m · about 1.5 h · T5
- Prominence
- 930 m3,052 ft
- Isolation
- 25 km
- Tonight
- 30°FSnow showers · Wind 5–10 mph S
Mount Sneffels is a 4,312 m (14,147 ft) mountain in the Sneffels Range, Colorado, United States.
All facts
- Elevation
- 4,312 m · 14,147 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mount Wilson (4,344 m)
- Range
- Sneffels Range
- Region
- Colorado, United States
- Protected area
- Uncompahgre National Forest
- Spanish name
- Monte Sneffels
- Coordinates
- 38.0038° N, 107.7924° W
How to get to the top of Mount Sneffels
2 mapped routes from where a car can get you. None is a walk: expect scrambling, snow or glacier.
Easiest route: from Trailhead, 1.2 km SE of Mount Sneffels
- Distance
- 1.6 kmone way
- Climb
- +518 m(1,699 ft up)
- Time up
- about 1.5 h
- Difficulty
- T5Demanding alpine: scrambling, possible snow or glacier
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mount Sneffels 3D map
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Mount Sneffels terrain and contours
100 m contours from the USGS 3DEP 10 m terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
West → east through the summit
Mount Sneffels weather
Tonight · Snow showers · 30°F (-1°C) · 33% chance of precipitation · Wind 5–10 mph S
Mount Sneffels forecast for the summit, about 3,468 m.
- Tonight30°33%5–10 mph S
- Sat30°39°82%5–15 mph S
- Sun23°35°55%5 mph S
- Mon26°38°2%0–10 mph WSW
- Tue26°40°1%10–25 mph SSW
- Wed27°40°1%5–20 mph SW
- Thu29°40°26%5–15 mph S
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 22:47 UTC.
Camping & parking near Mount Sneffels
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Sneffels, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
1.2 km SE
Nearest trailhead
1.2 km SE
Nearest campsite
2.2 km W
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 1.2 km SE |
| Trailhead | 1.2 km SE |
| Parking | 1.9 km SE |
| Trailhead | 1.9 km SE |
| Parking | 2.1 km SE |
| Campsite | 2.2 km W |
| Mount Sneffels TrailheadTrailhead | 2.9 km SE |
| Mill Creek Basin Backcountry CampCampsite | 3.2 km SSW |
| Campsite | 7.8 km S |
How steep is the route to Mount Sneffels?
The easiest mapped route, 1.6 km from 3,790 m to 4,312 m. Steepest stretch: 45°.
- 0–15°0.8 km
- 15–30°0.5 km
- 30–45°0.3 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 5 km, measured from the Mount Sneffels summit.
Summit list 8
- 1Cirque Mountain4,175 m 1.8 km E
- 2Gilpin Peak4,162 m 1.9 km S
- 3Teakettle Mountain4,172 m 2.7 km E
- 4Mount Emma4,138 m 3.2 km S
- 5Dallas Peak4,168 m 3.3 km WSW
- 6Mount Ridgway4,104 m 3.6 km ENE
- 7Potosi Peak4,195 m 4.1 km ESE
- 8Mendota Peak4,039 m 4.9 km SSE
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 5 km; 283 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Blue columbine89
- Yellow-bellied Marmot50
- Rhexia-leaved paintbrush47
- Western roseroot46
- American Pika39
- Whipple's penstemon38
Where Mount Sneffels sits
- Region
- Colorado59United States932North America1,313
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Mount Sneffels downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 4,310 m at the summit; the official height is 4,312 m.
A 10 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal. The 90 m model misses by 50 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 4,312 m | — |
| USGS 3DEP lidar | 4,314 m | +2 m |
| USGS 3DEP 10 m (used on this page) | 4,310 m | -2 m |
| Copernicus GLO-30 | 4,285 m | -27 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 4,262 m | -50 m |
Data sources
- Terrain
- U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (public domain)
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-10)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Routes, Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Protected area
- USGS Gap Analysis Project, PAD-US (public domain)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Accuracy comparison
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Accuracy comparison, Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from NOAA National Weather Service (public domain)
- Sources
- Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia