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List "Colorado County Prominence Points" By bdloftin

Notes: Most prominent point in each Colorado county.

Adams is the most vague with much of the summits and saddles being developed. There are three good candidates, all of which should probably be visited to cover your bases because of saddle ambiguity:
1) Neighborhood called Northpark: Chosen because its likely prominence is 3' higher than the other two. Street was chosen because ground near houses is definitely built up for drainage purposes.
2) Homestead Hills Park: The garden area to the north is unfortunately definitely artificially built up. The ridge to the south is possibly altered as well, but definitely more natural. Great views from this location and highly worth visiting!
3) A hill on a farm in far SE Adams county: Both the summit and saddle are largely undisturbed, but like Homestead Hills it is 3' less prominent than the point chosen on LoJ.

Cheyenne: The point chosen is 2' more prominent than peakbagger's Firstview Hill.

Denver, Broomfield, Arapaho: The summits are less modified than otherwise, but the saddles are likely altered to some extent, especially Denver and Broomfield. But these are still the obvious prominence points of their respective counties.

Kit Carson: With Joe Grim's programming skills tackling an extensive LiDAR area, I narrowed down the couple dozen+ candidates to just a handful. These were re-analyzed manually, and the selected point was the definite most prominent point.

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