Mount Daly (Pitkin County, Colorado)

Mount Daly is a mountain summit in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States.

Description Mount Daly, elevation 13,323-feet (4,061 m), is situated in the Elk Mountains which are a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. The peak is located southwest of the community of Snowmass Village in the Maroon Bells–Snowmass Wilderness, on land managed by White River National Forest. Precipitation runoff from the mountain's slopes drains into Capitol and Snowmass creeks which are tributaries of the Roaring Fork River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above West Snowmass Creek in one mile (1.6 km).

Etymology The mountain was named in 1874 by Henry Gannett during the Hayden Survey to honor Charles P. Daly (1816–1899), who was then president of the American Geographical Society.Henry Gannett (1905), The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States, p. 99. The landform's toponym was officially adopted on February 1, 1933, by the United States Board on Geographic Names,Decisions of the United States Geographic Board, No. 23, Decisions Rendered February 1, 1933 although it appeared in publications as early as 1877.Henry Gannett (1877), Lists of Elevations Principally in that Portion of the United States West of the Mississippi River, p. 119. There is a Mount Daly in Canada named for this same person. There is also another Mount Daly (12,615 ft) located six miles southwest in Gunnison County which has an unknown name origin.

Climate According to the Köppen climate classification system, Mount Daly is located in an alpine subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and cool to warm summers. 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.

Mount Daly (Pitkin County, Colorado)

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