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The Elk Mountains are a high rugged mountain range in the Rocky Mountains of west-central Colorado in the United States. The mountains sit on the western side of the Continental Divide largely in southern Pitkin and northern Gunnison counties in the area southwest of Aspen south of the Roaring Fork River valley and east of the Crystal River. The range sits west of the Sawatch Range and northeast of the West Elk Mountains.
