The Maroon Bells are two peaks in the Elk Mountains, Maroon Peak and North Maroon Peak,
separated by about half a kilometer.
The mountains are on the border between Pitkin County and Gunnison County, Colorado, about 12 miles southwest of Aspen.
Both peaks are fourteeners. Maroon Peak, at 14,163 ft, is the 27th highest peak in Colorado
North Maroon Peak, at 14,019 ft, is the 50th highest.
The view of the Maroon Bells to the southwest from the Maroon Creek valley is very heavily photographed.
The peaks are located in the Maroon Bells–Snow mass Wilderness of White River National Forest.
Maroon Bells-Snow mass Wilderness was one of five areas in Colorado designated as wilderness in the original Wilderness Act of 1964.
The Wilderness area surrounds the extremely popular Maroon Bells Scenic Area, which is a major access point for Wilderness travel