Mount Bierstadt

Mount Bierstadt
Reflections of Mount Bierstadt (right) and The Sawtooth (left)
Highest point
Elevation	14,065 ft (4,287 m)[1][2]
Prominence	720 ft (219 m)[3]
Isolation	1.12 mi (1.80 km)[3]
Listing	Colorado Fourteener 38th
Coordinates	39°34′57″N 105°40′08″W / 39.5825981°N 105.6687851°W / 39.5825981; -105.6687851[1]
Naming
Etymology	Albert Bierstadt
Geography
Mount Bierstadt Colorado
Location	Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States[4]
Parent range	Front Range, Colorado Peaks[3]
Topo map	USGS 7.5' topographic map Mount Evans, Colorado[1]
Climbing
First ascent	1863 Albert Bierstadt[3]
Easiest route	West Slopes: Hike, class 2[5]

Mount Bierstadt is a 14,065-foot-high (4,287 m) mountain summit in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. state of Colorado. The fourteener is located in the Mount Evans Wilderness of Pike National Forest, 9.4 miles (15.1 km) south by east (bearing 171°) of the Town of Georgetown in Clear Creek County.^[1][2][3][4] It was named in honor of Albert Bierstadt, an American landscape painter who made the first recorded summit of the mountain in 1863.