Lead Mountain is a summit in Grand County, Colorado, in the United States.

[2] With an elevation of 12,546 feet (3,824 m), Lead Mountain is the 970th-highest summit in the state of Colorado.

The mountain is situated on the western boundary of Rocky Mountain National Park,[4] and the west side of the peak is in the Never Summer Wilderness, on land managed by Medicine Bow–Routt National Forest.

The counterintuitive direction of water flow is because the Continental Divide forms a loop in this area, whereby the peak's west slope runoff flows to the Atlantic Ocean and the east slope to the Pacific.

[5] Due to its altitude, it receives precipitation all year, as snow in winter, and as thunderstorms in summer, with a dry period in late spring.