Braddock Peak

Braddock Peak is a mountain summit in the Never Summer Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.  The  peak is located in State Forest State Park,  south-southwest (bearing 201°) of Cameron Pass in Jackson County, Colorado, United States.

Mountain
Braddock Peak lies  east-northeast of Seven Utes Mountain,  west of Snow Lake, and  north of the boundary of Routt National Forest and the Never Summer Wilderness.

It is named for Dr. William A.  Braddock (1929–2003), Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1958 to 1994. Dr. Braddock and his students geologically mapped over  of the northern Front Range, including the summit named for him. He was the principal author of The Geologic Map of Rocky Mountain National Park. Following his retirement, Dr. Braddock taught the lay public about the geology in and around Rocky Mountain National Park.

Descriptions of hiking routes in this area that predate adoption of the Braddock Peak name refer to this summit as Point 11,960.

See also

List of Colorado mountain ranges
List of Colorado mountain summits
List of Colorado fourteeners
List of Colorado 4000 meter prominent summits
List of the most prominent summits of Colorado
List of Colorado county high points

References

External links

Category:Mountains of Colorado
Category:Mountains of Jackson County, Colorado
Category:North American 3000 m summits