Mount Sneffels is a fourteen thousand foot mountain peak in the U.S. state of Colorado. It is located in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness of the northern San Juan Mountains, in Ouray County approximately 5 miles (8 km) west of the town of Ouray.

The primary route to the summit follows a creek bed up from Yankee Boy Basin. A secondary route follows a ridge line to the summit from the saddle of Blue Lakes Pass.

Mount Sneffels was named after the volcano Snæfellsjökull (or Snæfell) in Iceland featured in the Jules Verne novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth. The area on the western flank of the mountain gives the appearance of volcanic creater.

Seen from the Dallas Divide on Colorado State Highway 62, Mount Sneffels is one of the most photographed mountains in Colorado.

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Fourteeners of Colorado | Mountains of Colorado | Ouray County, Colorado