LEADVILLE — Though it may lack in true climbing excitement compared with many of the state’s 14,000-foot mountains, hiking Colorado’s highest point, Mount Elbert, provides a textbook Rocky Mountain ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LEADVILLE — Though it may lack in true climbing excitement compared with many of the state’s 14,000-foot mountains, hiking Colorado’s highest point, Mount ...

An estimated 1,650 hikers poop each year on Colorado’s tallest and busiest 14er. And because what those hikers do with their waste can have widespread environmental and human impacts, PACT Outdoors, a ...

Colorado Fourteeners Initiative has worked on 35 of the state’s 58 mountains higher than 14,000 feet, fixing ‘social trails’ created by climbers taking the most direct route to the summit MOUNT ELBERT ...

COLORADO, USA — The number of people hiking Colorado's 14,000-foot mountains dropped last year to the lowest level since 2015, according to data from the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative. The ...

Mike Epke, left, and Aaron Payne make the final push to the summit of Handies Peak in the San Juan Mountains. The hikers have both completed more than 40 of Colorado’s 58 fourteeners. Colorado’s ...

CASCADE, CO — Over three decades and countless miles, Loretta McEllhiney has designed (or realigned) all but two of the sustainable trails that ascend Colorado's vast array of mountains that exceed 14 ...

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — EDITORS NOTE: This original article shared the story of Evan Gill, who set out to become the first Black man to summit all of Colorado's 14ers. After seeing the story, the man who ...