Mount Zirkel

Mount Zirkel is the highest summit of the Park Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 12185 ft peak is located in the Mount Zirkel Wilderness of Routt National Forest, 41.7 km north-northeast (bearing 19°) of the City of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, United States, on the Continental Divide between Jackson and Routt counties. Mount Zirkel was named in honor of German geologist Ferdinand Zirkel.