Methodist Mountain is an 11707 feet (3,568.3 m) peak roughly 6 miles south of the City of Salida, Colorado

Salida, Colorado

The City of Salida is a Statutory City that is the county seat and most populous city of Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. The population was 5,504 at the U.S. Census 2000.-History:800px|thumb|left| Panoramic View of Salida, 1910...

. The summit straddles the Chaffee County

Chaffee County, Colorado

Chaffee County is one of the 64 counties of the state of Colorado of the United States. The county population was 16,242 at U.S. Census 2000. The county seat is Salida.-History:...

 / Saguache County

Saguache County, Colorado

Saguache County is the seventh most extensive of the 64 counties of the state of Colorado of the United States. The county name comes from a Ute language word meaning “blue earth” or “water at blue earth”. The county population was 5,917 at U.S. Census 2000...

 line. (It is also very close to a corner of Fremont County

Fremont County, Colorado

Fremont County is the thirteenth most populous of the 64 counties of the state of Colorado of the United States. The county is named for explorer and presidential candidate John C. Frémont. The county population was 46,824 at the 2010 census. The county seat is Cañon City. The Cañon City...

, but does not touch nor extend into it.) Methodist Mountain is the northernmost peak in the Sangre de Cristo Range

Sangre de Cristo Range

The Sangre de Cristo Range, called the East Range locally in the San Luis Valley, is a narrow mountain range of the Rocky Mountains running north and south along the east side of the Rio Grande Rift in southern Colorado in the United States...

, which stretches south through southern Colorado to Sante Fe New Mexico.

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