Colorado's 14,000-foot Mountains

The Maroon Bells, the 24th and 51st highest mountains in Colorado, are beautiful mountains but difficult and dangerous to climb. Find out here about North Maroon Peak and Maroon Peak.

Colorado offers 54 Fourteeners or 14,000-foot mountains for climbers to ascend. Learn all about Colorado's Fourteeners and how to climb them.

Colorado, the roof of the Rockies, offers 54 Fourteeners or peaks above 14,000 feet for climbers. Here is a complete listing of all the Fourteeners, their elevations, and their mountain ranges.

Facts About Mount Elbert, the Highest Mountain in Colorado

Facts About Pikes Peak, the 31st Highest Mountain in Colorado.

Information and a route description for climbing Mount Sherman, one of Colorado's Fourteeners.

Learn interesting facts about Longs Peak, the highest mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park and the 15th highest Fourteener in Colorado.

The Keyhole Route climbs Longs Peak, one of Colorado's most beautiful and difficult Fourteeners. Plan your climb up Longs Peak with this detailed route description up the Keyhole Route, the single most popular mountain route in Colorado.

Want to climb a Fourteener? Here is comprehensive information and a route description for climbing Mount Democrat, one of Colorado's Fourteeners and it's 29th highest mountain.

Mount Sneffels in the San Juan Range in southwestern Colorado is one of the state's most recognizable and beautiful mountains. Sneffels, a Fourteener or 14,000-foot peak, boasts an interesting climbing history. Read all about Mount Sneffels and four of the best routes up it.

Capitol Peak in the Elk Range in west-central Colorado is one of the hardest Fourteeners to climb in the state. The stately peak offers sweeping buttresses, towering granite walls, and a great climbing route that culminates with the famed Knife Edge ridge. Learn all about Capitol Peak, how it was named, who did the first ascent, how many...

Capitol Peak, one of Colorado's hardest Fourteeners to climb, offers a great climbing route with lots of exposure, a summit with spacious views, and the famous Knife Edge ridge. Find a complete route description for the Northeast Ridge Route and make plans to climb one of Colorado's best mountains.

In 1916 pioneer climbers Albert Ellingwood, Eleanor Davis, and two others made the first ascents of Crestone Peak and Crestone Needle, the last two of Colorado's 54 Fourteeners or 14,000-foot peaks to be climbed. Read about the landmark ascent and two great American climbers.

In 1924, pioneer climbers Albert Ellingwood, Eleanor Davis, Stephen Hart, and Marion Warner made the first ascent of one of Colorado's classic and most beautiful alpine routes up a prow on the North Face of Crestone Needle. Read about their landmark first ascent, creating perhaps America's hardest long climbing route at the time.