Little Giant Peak is a mountain summit in San Juan County, Colorado, United States.
Description Little Giant Peak is located east-southeast of the community of Silverton on land administered by the Bureau of Land Management.BLM Ownership map, Silverton, Colorado, blm.gov It is west of the Continental Divide in the San Juan Mountains which are a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into tributaries of the Animas River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises over above Silver Lake in one-half mile (0.8 km) and above Cunningham Creek in one mile (1.6 km). The mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names, and has been recorded in publications since at least 1901.Frederick Leslie Ransome (1901), A Report on the Economic Geology of the Silverton Quadrangle, Colorado, US Government Printing Office, p. 98.Henry Gannett, United States Geological Survey (1906), A Gazetteer of Colorado, US Government Printing Office, p. 105.
Climate According to the Köppen climate classification system, Little Giant Peak is located in an alpine subarctic climate zone with long, 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.
See also
Thirteener
References
External links Weather forecast: Little Giant Peak National Geodetic Survey data sheet