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Sunlight Peak

Peak in San Juan NF, Weminuche Wilderness, Rocky Mountains near Tacoma, CO

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Sunlight Peak is a high mountain summit of the Needle Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,065-foot (4,287 m) fourteener is located in the Weminuche Wilderness of San Juan National Forest, 28.5 miles (45.8 km) northeast by north (bearing 32°) of the City of Durango in La Plata County, Colorado, United States. Sunlight Peak was so named in 1902; the name is likely descriptive.

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Granitic rocks of 1400-m.y. age group (COYg;0)

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