Tijeras Peak


Tijeras Peak is a high mountain summit in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The thirteener is located southeast by east of the Town of Crestone in Saguache County, Colorado, United States, in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness on the boundary between Great Sand Dunes National Preserve and Rio Grande National Forest. Tijeras Peak is the highest summit in Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. Tijeras is Spanish for scissors, and refers to the double-pronged rocky tip of the mountain.

Mountain

Historical names