Blanca Peak, Colorado

Elevation Info:	NAVD88 Elevation: 14,351 ft / 4374 m
Subpeaks	Blanca Peak-Northeast Slope (14,320 ft/4365 m)
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	37° 34' 39'' N, 105° 29' 8'' W 37.577491, -105.485649 (Dec Deg) 457118 E 4159049 N, Zone 13 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	Colorado
County/Second Level Region	Alamosa (Highest Point) Costilla (Highest Point)
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Blanca Peak":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      Blanca Peak at SummitPost.org      Blanca Peak at ListsOfJohn.com      Weather for Blanca Peak at Mountain-Forecast.com      CoHP.org Trip Report for Alamosa, CO by Ken Akerman      CoHP.org Trip Report for Alamosa, CO by Adam Helman      CoHP.org Trip Report for Alamosa, CO by Dave Covill      CoHP.org Trip Report for Alamosa, CO by Kevin Baker      CoHP.org Trip Report for Costilla, CO by David Covill Weather and Snow      National Weather Service Forecast      NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Blanca Peak:      USA Lower 48 Top 400 Peaks by Prominence (Rank #46)      USA Lower 48 Range5 High Points (Rank #5)      USA/Canada Range4 High Points (Rank #9)      USA Lower 48 Peaks with 4000 feet of Prominence (Rank #46)      North America 14,000-foot Peaks (Rank #49)      USA Lower 48 Peaks with 100 miles of Isolation (Rank #39)      Colorado 13,500 foot Peaks (Rank #4)      Western USA Peaks with 25 miles of Isolation (Rank #21)      Western Contiguous USA CoHPs (Rank #6)      Western USA CoHPs (Rank #11)      Colorado 13,700-foot Peaks (Rank #4)      USA Lower 48 Drainage Basin High Points (Rank #5)      USA Lower 48 Range4 High Points (Rank #4)      2000-foot Prominence CoHPs - 48 States (Rank #39)      CoHP High Five List (Rank #11)      USA Lower 48 Top 100 Peaks by Prominence (Rank #46)      Sacred Navajo Mountains (Rank #1) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Colorado's Fourteeners: From Hikes to Climbs (Roach)        A Climbing Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners (Borneman, Lampert)        Hiking Colorado's Summits (Mitchler, Covill) Selected Trip Reports from this site:      2003-07-14 by Joe Lavelle      2004-09-02 by Chris Jaquet      2005-09-09 by Mountain Man Henry The (Unsuccessful)      2007-08-04 by Cynthia Nemcik (Unsuccessful)      2008-06-19 by Patrick Lilly      2010-08-15 by Peter Blaser      2010-09-04 by Greg Slayden (GPS Track)      2011-08-21 by Donnie Puckle      2012-07-23 by Rob Woodall (GPS Track)      2012-08-24 by BMS 914 (GPS Track)      2012-08-24 by Eric Kassan (GPS Track)      2012-08-24 by Hannah Wilner      2013-07-05 by Alan Bernier      2014-08-08 by William Musser      2014-08-31 by Brandon Boulier (GPS Track)      2015-07-04 by Mihai Giurgiulescu (GPS Track)      2016-09-10 by Lou Hibbard      2017-06-04 by Connor McEntee (GPS Track)      2017-09-03 by Nicholas Hermann      2017-09-21 by Michael Brown (GPS Track)      2018-07-31 by Dennis Stewart      2018-09-08 by Denise Mclellan View ascents of peak by registered Peakbagger.com members (241 total) Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Blanca Peak      Elevation Ladder from Blanca Peak      Prominence Ladder from Blanca Peak

Blanca Peak lords over the open expanses of the San Luis Valley.
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Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 5326 ft/1623 m   Optimistic Prominence: 5326 ft/1623 m   Line Parent: Mount Harvard   Key Col: Poncha Pass    9019 ft/2749 m
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 103.37 mi/166.36 km    Isolation Limit Point: 38.924486, -106.318912 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Mount Harvard  (NNW)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Rocky Mountains Range3: Southern Rocky Mountains Range4: Sangre de Cristo Range (Highest Point) Range5: Sierra Blanca (Highest Point)
Drainage Basins	Rio Grande (HP) Gulf of Mexico Atlantic Ocean Arkansas Mississippi Gulf of Mexico Atlantic Ocean
Ownership	Land: Rio Grande National Forest (Highest Point)
Topo Map	Blanca Peak O37105e4 1:24,000
First Ascent	August 14, 1874 Frank Carpenter Gilbert Thompson
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map
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Other Photos

Blanca Peak from route on Mount Lindsey (1984-09-12). Photo by John Vitz. Click here for larger-size photo.

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