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Hike · Lone Cone Road trailhead

Lone Cone Road

Distance
11.6 mi
Vertical
1,706 ft
Summit
11,096 ft
Difficulty
Strenuous

Lone Cone is the westernmost laccolith in the San Miguel Mountains of southwestern Colorado, a 12,618-foot pyramid standing alone on the drainage divide between the San Juan National Forest and the Uncompahgre National Forest. It rises roughly twenty-four miles west of…

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Lone Cone in late spring, its snowfields still holding on the upper slopes above a darker apron of forested moraine.
Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0
The pyramid from the north, framed by sage flats and a low ridge — the peak's isolation from the rest of the San Miguels is unmistakable.
Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0
Lone Cone from the south, showing the broad spruce-fir skirt that wraps the lower flanks below the rocky summit.
Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0
Summer view from the northeast — the rocky summit above aspen groves at the foot of the mountain.
perlick22 · CC BY-SA 2.0

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