West Spanish Peak, the higher of Colorado’s two Spanish Peaks, rises 13,631 feet in the Spanish Peaks Wilderness and is the highest point in Las Animas County. An eastern outlier of the Culebra Range in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, it is an erosional remnant of a quartz syenite stock formed about 24.59 million years ago and is the center of more than 500 radiating dikes, making it a major geologic landmark in southern Colorado. Its position near the plains gives it exceptional local relief, with steep rises on both flanks, and its standard route climbs from Cordova Pass to a broad summit ridge crowned by a large cairn.