Cheyenne Mountain

Cheyenne Mountain, occasionally referred to as Cheyenne Benchmark, is a 2,915-metre-high (9,565 ft) mountain in El Paso County, Colorado, south of downtown Colorado Springs located in the Western North American Great Plains and is part of Pikes National Forest. It has three peaks with the highest one reaching (9,200 ft). The mountains closest neighbor, Pikes Peak, is the highest summit of the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in North America, east of its longitude. Cheyenne Mountain is located in the southern edge of the Colorado Front Range, of the Rockies. Cheyenne Mountain consists almost primarily of coarse-grained, igneous rocks, that was emplaced by 1,524 meters (5,000 ft) of magma under the surface of the Earth, causing igneous intrusions into older rocks, creating the entire mass to form into granite during solidification, causing the formation of a mountain, from the process erosion. Most of the mountains eastern flank is protected land managed by the state Colorado

Elevation: 2915 m

Country: United States

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