Rockymountainnps.jpg|thumb|300px|White Goat Wilderness Area, Alberta, Canada]] The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) from British Columbia, in Canada, to New Mexico, in the United States. The highest peak is Mount Elbert, in Colorado, which is 14,440 feet (4,401 meters) above sea level. Mount Robson, at 12,972 feet (3,954 meters) is the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. The Rocky Mountain System is a United States physiographic region.

In the United States, the more impressive rises above the Great Plains includes the Front Range from northern Colorado to northern New Mexico, in Wyoming along the Wind River Range and Big Horn Mountains, and in Montana with the Crazy Mountains and along the Rocky Mountain Front which extends into extreme southwestern Alberta, Canada. The Wasatch Range near Salt Lake City, Utah divides the Great Basin from the mountains in the west.

Geography and geology

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The Rocky Mountains are commonly defined to stretch from the Liard River in British Columbia, down to the Rio Grande in New Mexico. The mountains can also be considered to run all the way to Alaska or Mexico, but usually those mountains are considered to be part of the entire American cordillera, rather than part of the Rockies.

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@zwalkk Sup fam?? How is the ice cold Rocky mountains?
Seanoldtrump (Seany) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:22:03 -0000
@zwalkk Sup fam?? How is the ice cold Rocky mountains?
The start of the rocky mountains from 35000 feet. #beautiful #Climb http://tweetphoto.com/6620034
rfaloona (Ryan Faloona) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:54:42 -0000
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honeydees (Diana Rivera) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:28:55 -0000
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thezwill (Michele Zwillinger) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:34:58 -0000
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