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Top 10 sights in Aspen

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   Maroon Bells

   Two peaks in the Elk Mountains near Aspen, both over 4,300 metres. Reflected in Maroon Lake below them, they are said to be the most photographed mountains in the United States.

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   Castle Peak

   A peak of 4,349 metres in the Elk Mountains near Aspen, the ninth highest in Colorado and the highest of its range. It is climbed by a long jeep road and a scramble, usually from July.

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   Snowmass Mountain

   A mountain of 4,295 metres in the Elk Mountains west of Aspen. Snow lies below the summit into summer, which gives it its name, and a glacial lake sits beneath it.

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   Capitol Peak

   A mountain of 4,308 metres in the Elk Mountains northwest of Aspen. Its summit ridge narrows to a knife edge, which makes it the hardest of the Colorado fourteeners.

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   Aspen Mountain

   The mountain rising straight behind Aspen, known locally as Ajax. Skiing began on it in 1946, with what was then the longest chairlift in the world, and it still has no beginner runs from the summit.

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   Pyramid Peak

   A fourteener in the Elk Mountains about 12 miles southwest of Aspen, the 47th highest summit in Colorado. Its ragged pyramid rises 4,000 feet above Crater Lake in barely more than a mile, which makes it one of the steepest of the state's high peaks.

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   Italian Mountain

   A mountain of 3,993 metres southeast of Aspen, named after the Italian immigrants who worked the mines of the district in the nineteenth century.

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   Grizzly Peak

   A mountain of 4,088 metres near Aspen. Several peaks in Colorado carry the same name, so they are distinguished by location.

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   Mount Oklahoma

   A mountain of 4,148 metres east of Aspen. The name is said to have been given by miners working the district in the early 1900s.

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    Red Table Mountain

    A ridge-shaped mountain north of Aspen. Beds of red sandstone form its flat top, which gives it its name, and a forest road runs along the crest.

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   Wheeler Opera House

   An opera house built in central Aspen in 1889 by the silver magnate Jerome Wheeler. It was restored in 1984 and is still in use as a performance venue.

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   Garfield Peak (Colorado)

   A mountain of 3,979 metres near Aspen, named after the American president James Garfield, with mine workings surviving below it.

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   Snowmass Peak

   The rock wall that fills the view above Snowmass Lake in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness. It is not really a summit but the lower end of Hagerman Peak's east ridge, 221 feet below that top, though the view from the lake makes it look the higher of the two.

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   Ouray Peak

   A mountain in the 3,900-metre range near Aspen. It is named after Ouray, the mining town of southwestern Colorado, and is reached by forest road.

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