Pikes Peak

Pikes Peak or America's Mountain is an ultra-prominent fourteener of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. Pikes Peak's summit, with an elevation of 14,115 ft (4,302 m) above sea level, is the easternmost fourteener in the United States.

Front Range · El Paso County · United States · 4,302 m

Pikes Peak, in the afternoon

About Pikes Peak

Pikes Peak is the highest summit of Colorado’s southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, rising to 14,115 feet (4,302 m) and known in Ute cultural tradition as Tava-kaavi, or “Sun Mountain” . The mountain was first recorded by Lt.

Pikes Peak or America's Mountain is an ultra-prominent fourteener of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. Pikes Peak's summit, with an elevation of 14,115 ft (4,302 m) above sea level, is the easternmost fourteener in the United States. Pikes Peak is in Pike National Forest, Colorado, with the base located in the town of Manitou Springs, 10 miles west of downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado, in El Paso County, United States.

Pikes Peak is the highest summit of Colorado’s southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, rising to 14,115 feet (4,302 m) and known in Ute cultural tradition as Tava-kaavi, or “Sun Mountain” . The mountain was first recorded by Lt. Zebulon Pike in 1806, while its first recorded summit ascent was made by naturalist Edwin James and two companions on July 14, 1820 .

Documented mountaineering milestones

  • 1820 — First recorded ascent of the summit during the Long Expedition: Edwin James and two companions

Routes and approaches

A recognized nontechnical access route is the Pikes Peak Highway, which ascends from the Colorado Springs area to the 14,115-foot summit over approximately 19 miles .

These records are loaded from the existing route API. No route metrics are invented when the source does not provide them.

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Sources and provenance

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