rocky mountains

     

The Rocky Mountains (Hoˀhonáaˀe tse-amoˀėstse "Rock on the Horizon" in Cheyenne), often calle the Rockies, are a broad mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 4,800 kilometers (3,000 miles) from northernmost British Columbia, in Canada, to New Mexico, in the United States. The range's highest peak is Colorado's Mount Elbert at 14,440 feet (4,401 meters) above sea level. Though part of North America's Pacific Cordillera, the Rockies are distinct from the Pacific Coast Ranges which are located immediately adjacent to the Pacific coast.

Trivia about rocky mountains

  • In the winter (!) of 1857 Randolph Marcy led a heroic march across these Colorado mountains
  • Part of this 3,000-mile long mountain system covers the middle third of Colorado
  • Important mining centers in this range include Leadville, Colorado & Kimberley, British Columbia
  • This mountain system stretches from New Mexico to the Brooks Range north of the Arctic Circle
  • America's chief mountain system, it forms the Continental Divide
  • It's the mountain chain in the names of a U.S. sheep & goat
  • Utah's Uinta Range is the only major range of these mountains in the contiguous 48 states that runs east & west

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