The 12,185-foot (3,714 m) peak is located in the West Elk Wilderness of Gunnison National Forest, about 16.5 miles (26.5 km) southwest of Crested Butte in Gunnison County, Colorado, United States.

[2][1] West Beckwith Mountain is a laccolith, formed when magma intruded into Mancos Shale some 30 million years ago.

Since then, erosion has removed the softer, overlying sedimentary rock, exposing the more resistant igneous rock.

West Beckwith Mountain is one of over a dozen laccoliths in the West Elk and adjacent Elk Mountains.

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