# Bald Mountain

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bald-mountain/

- Kind: Landmark rocks, buttes and mountains
- Status: Living today
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.137, -104.849 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

Wikipedia calls it the Palmer Divide's high point, 7,887 feet (S-0132); GNIS gives 7,877. It stands about a mile north of the Platte-Arkansas drainage line, which itself tops out at 7,709 feet in the Black Forest.

## Where it was

GNIS's Bald Mountain (summit, 7,877 ft), labeled 'Bald Mtn, 7887' on the 1913 USGS Castle Rock sheet (S-0124) in the NW1/4 Sec. 36, T10S R67W. Good to a few hundred feet.

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

## Sources

- S-0006: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0006
- S-0048: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0048
- S-0124: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0124
- S-0132: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0132

## Nearby

- [Columbine School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/columbine-school/): 1.1 mi southeast
- [Greenmont Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/greenmont-cemetery/): 1.5 mi west
- [Spruce](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spruce/): 2.2 mi northwest
- [Woodmoor](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/woodmoor/): 2.5 mi south
- [McBroom Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcbroom-ranch/): 2.6 mi northeast
- [Elephant Rock](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elephant-rock/): 2.6 mi southwest

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.