Sunlight Peak
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{{Infobox Mountain
|Name = Sunlight Peak
|Photo = Sunlight Peak.jpg
|Caption = Sunlight Peak from Twin Lakes
|Elevation = 14,059 ft (4,285 m)
|Location = [[Colorado]], [[United States]]
|Range = [[San Juan Mountains]], [[Needle Mountains (Colorado)|Needle Mountains]]
|Coordinates = {{coor dms|37|37|38|N|107|35|43|W|type:mountain_region:US}}
|Topographic Map = [[United States Geological Survey|USGS]] Storm King Peak
|Prominence = 399 ft (122 m)
|First ascent =
|Easiest route = Red [[Couloir]]: [[scrambling|scramble]] ([[Grade (climbing)|class 3]])
}}
'''Sunlight Peak''' is a [[fourteener]] in the [[Needle Mountains (Colorado)|Needle Mountains]], a subrange of the [[San Juan Mountains]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Colorado]]. It is located in the [[Weminuche Wilderness]] (part of the [[San Juan National Forest]]) in [[La Plata County, Colorado|La Plata County]] approximately 13 miles (21 km) south of [[Silverton, Colorado|Silverton]].
Sunlight Peak is one of three fourteeners in the Needle Mountains; the other two are [[Mount Eolus]] and [[Windom Peak]]. Windom and Sunlight lie on the east side of Twin Lakes, in upper [[Chicago Basin]], while Eolus lies on the west side. All three peaks are relatively remote by Colorado standards, and have a strong wilderness character; however they can be popular in summer.
The standard route up Sunlight Peak is from the south, known as the "Red [[Couloir]]". It is a non-technical [[scrambling|scramble]], but achieving the top of the summit block does require an exposed [[rock climbing]] move.<ref name="dawson">Louis W. Dawson II, ''Dawson's Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, Volume 2'', Blue Clover Press, 1996, ISBN 0-9628867-2-6</ref>
==See also==
*[[Colorado fourteeners]]
*[[Colorado mountain peaks]]
*[[Colorado mountain ranges]]
*[[Mountain peaks of North America]]
*[[Mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountains]]
*[[Mountain peaks of the United States]]
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/150917/sunlight-peak.html Sunlight Peak on Summitpost]
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[[Category:Fourteeners of Colorado]]
[[Category:Mountains of Colorado]]
[[Category:La Plata County, Colorado]]
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