Everything about La Plata Peak totally explained
La Plata Peak is a
fourteener and the fifth highest mountain in the
U.S. state of
Colorado. It is located in the
Sawatch Range in northwestern
Chaffee County, approximately 20 miles (32 km) southwest of
Leadville, Colorado, just south of
Twin Lakes and
State Highway 82 on the east side of
Independence Pass. La Plata peak is located completely within the
San Isabel National Forest and is part of the
Collegiate Peaks Wilderness.
The peak's name means 'silver' in Spanish. This comes from the many silver deposits in the area. The nearby ghost towns of
Winfield and
Hamilton were prominent silver mining towns in the early part of the 20th Century.
A
Hayden Survey team first climbed the peak on July 26th, 1873.
Climbing Routes
There are two commonly used routes to climb the mountain. One route begins near Winfield, to the south of the peak, and climbs north into a large marshy basin at 12,000 feet. From here the trail becomes steeper as it scales a headwall to 13,000 feet. From the top of the headwall it's a short rock scramble to the summit. The other route approaches the summit from the north. The trail starts from Highway 82 and follows the northern ridge that divides the La Plata basin from La Plata Gulch. Another more challenging and rarely used route is the northeast arm of the peak known as
Ellingwood Ridge.
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