Mount Oklahoma
{{Short description|Mountain in the state of Colorado}}
{{Infobox mountain
| name = Mount Oklahoma
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| photo = Mount Oklahoma.jpg
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| photo_caption = Northeast aspect, centered, from Mount Massive
| elevation_ft = 13852
| elevation_ref = The elevation of Mount Oklahoma includes an adjustment of +2.139 m (+7.02 ft) from NGVD 29 to NAVD 88.{{cite peakbagger|pid=5731|title=Mount Oklahoma, Colorado|access-date=November 6, 2014}}
| prominence_ft = 745
| isolation_mi = 1.52
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| range = Sawatch Range, Massive Massif
| parent_peak = Mount Massive
| location = Continental Divide between Lake and Pitkin counties, Colorado, United States
| map = Colorado
| map_caption = Colorado
| coordinates = {{coord|39.1788784|N|106.5061402|W|type:mountain_region:US-CO_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
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| coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis|id=196668|name=Mount Oklahoma|access-date=November 6, 2014}}
| topo = USGS 7.5' topographic map
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Mount Oklahoma is a high mountain summit in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The {{convert|13852|ft|0|adj=on}} thirteener is located {{convert|9.2|km|order=flip}} northeast by north (bearing 33°) of Independence Pass, Colorado, United States, on the Continental Divide separating the Mount Massive Wilderness in San Isabel National Forest and Lake County from the Hunter-Fryingpan Wilderness in White River National Forest and Pitkin County. The mountain was named in honor of the University of Oklahoma.
Climate
According to the Köppen climate classification system, Mt. Oklahoma is located in an alpine subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and cool to warm summers.{{cite journal | author = Peel, M. C. |author2=Finlayson, B. L. |author3=McMahon, T. A. | year = 2007 | title = Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification | journal = Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. | volume = 11 | issn = 1027-5606}} Due to its altitude, it receives precipitation all year, as snow in winter, and as thunderstorms in summer, with a dry period in late spring.
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See also
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- 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
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Category:Mountains of Pitkin County, Colorado
Category:San Isabel National Forest
Category:White River National Forest
Category:Great Divide of North America
Category:Four-thousanders of the United States
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