The 12,441-foot (3,792 m) peak is located in the West Elk Wilderness of Gunnison National Forest, 13.4 miles (21.5 km) west by south (bearing 264°) of the Town of Crested Butte in Gunnison County, Colorado, United States.

[1][2][3][4] East Beckwith Mountain is a laccolith, formed when magma intruded into Mancos Shale approximately 30 million years ago.

Of these laccoliths, East Beckwith Mountain is noted for its distinctive glacial landforms.

On the north side of this elongated, east–west oriented mountain, there are five glacially carved cirques with intervening arêtes, and moraines fan out from the mountain's base.

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