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Gold Hill

Distance
10.6 mi
Vertical
3,261 ft
Summit
12,674 ft
Difficulty
Very strenuous

Gold Hill is a 12,716-foot summit in the Sangre de Cristo Range, the high point of the Columbine–Hondo Wilderness and the eleventh-highest peak in New Mexico. It sits in Carson National Forest about 18 miles north-northeast of Taos and 6.5 miles north-northwest of Wheeler Peak,…

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About Gold Hill (New Mexico)

Gold Hill is a 12,716-foot elevation (3,876 m) mountain summit in Taos County, New Mexico, United States.

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Gold Hill's broad snowy summit dome catching winter light, the long alpine ridge that defines the peak's tundra terrain visible at left.
David Herrera · CC BY 2.0
Summer closeup of the tundra cap and exposed scree of Gold Hill's south face — entirely above tree line, a rarity for New Mexico peaks.
David Herrera · CC BY 2.0
Snow-loaded summit through a conifer foreground, taken from milepost 18 along NM-522 about a mile south of Bobcat Pass.
David Herrera · CC BY 2.0
Gold Hill (left) paired with Flag Mountain on the right edge of the frame, a wide view of the northern Sangre de Cristos from the sage flats.
David Herrera · CC BY 2.0

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