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Colorado 14ers List


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Colorado is home to most of the highest peaks in the lower 48. These mountains boast climbing challenges for serious peakbaggers as well as class-1 ascents for hikers seeking an unbeatable view. The question of 'how many fourteeners are there in Colorado' does not have a single, simple answer.

The 53 officially-ranked 14ers have at least 300' of prominence. There are 5 additional summits over 14,000' which are named on USGS maps. These combine to form the common "complete" list of 58 peaks which is found below.

The Colorado Mountain Club recognizes a "historical" list of 54 summits which includes the 53 ranked fourteeners plus El Diente.

A more thorough, albeit rarely used, list was created by Gerry Roach with no regards to official names and only 40' of prominence (enough to see with USGS contour lines) which put the total to 75.

The best answer to the question, "How many Colorado 14ers are there?" is probably to respond, "Fifty-something."

The 'YDS' column is the technical rating of the climb using the Yosemite Decimal System. Clicking the top of this column will roughly sort the Colorado 14ers ranked by difficulty, with class 1 being the easiest.

This list was updated in 2022 to reflect the new LiDAR elevations—which are accurate to within a few inches. These new data are especially helpful with prominence values, since the USGS maps only allowed us to estimate saddle elevations to within a 40' range.

Rank Summit Name Range Elevation Prom. YDS
1 Mount Elbert Sawatch 14438 9098 1
2 Mount Massive Sawatch 14427 1983 2
3 Mount Harvard Sawatch 14424 2340 2
4 Blanca Peak Sangre de Cristo 14350 5335 2
5 La Plata Peak Sawatch 14344 1846 2
6 Uncompahgre Peak San Juan 14318 4249 2
7 Crestone Peak Sangre de Cristo 14299 4584 3
8 Mount Lincoln Tenmile-Mosquito 14293 3860 2
9 Grays Peak Front Range 14275 2782 1
10 Castle Peak Elk 14274 2358 2
11 Quandary Peak Tenmile-Mosquito 14272 1134 1
12 Torreys Peak Front Range 14272 549 1
13 Mount Antero Sawatch 14271 2497 2
14 Mount Blue Sky (Mt. Evans) Front Range 14268 2751 1
15 Longs Peak Front Range 14259 2947 3
16 Mount Wilson San Juan 14256 4021 3
* Mount Cameron Tenmile-Mosquito 14248 152 2
17 Mount Shavano Sawatch 14230 1614 2
18 Mount Belford Sawatch 14202 1329 2
19 Mount Princeton Sawatch 14200 2213 2
20 Mount Yale Sawatch 14200 1874 2
21 Crestone Needle Sangre de Cristo 14196 455 4
22 Mount Bross Tenmile-Mosquito 14178 315 1
* El Diente Peak San Juan 14175 264 3
23 Kit Carson Peak Sangre de Cristo 14167 1031 2+
24 Maroon Peak Elk 14163 2328 3
25 Mount Oxford Sawatch 14158 649 2
26 Tabeguache Peak Sawatch 14158 441 2
27 Mount Sneffels San Juan 14155 3030 2+
28 Mount Democrat Tenmile-Mosquito 14154 770 2
29 Capitol Peak Elk 14138 1772 4
30 Pikes Peak Front Range 14109 5527 1
31 Snowmass Mountain Elk 14105 1173 3
32 Windom Peak San Juan 14089 2166 2+
33 Mount Eolus San Juan 14087 1012 3
* Challenger Point Sangre de Cristo 14086 301 2+
34 Mount Columbia Sawatch 14075 911 2
35 Missouri Mountain Sawatch 14071 855 2
36 Humboldt Peak Sangre de Cristo 14068 1227 2
37 Mount Bierstadt Front Range 14066 772 2
38 Sunlight Peak San Juan 14061 412 4
39 Handies Peak San Juan 14058 1921 1
40 Ellingwood Point Sangre de Cristo 14057 374 2
41 Mount Lindsey Sangre de Cristo 14055 1534 2
42 Culebra Peak Sangre de Cristo 14053 4803 2
43 Mount Sherman Tenmile-Mosquito 14043 902 1
* North Eolus San Juan 14042 212 2+
44 Little Bear Peak Sangre de Cristo 14041 397 4
* Conundrum Peak Elk 14037 225 2
45 Redcloud Peak San Juan 14037 1436 1+
46 Pyramid Peak Elk 14029 1649 4
47 San Luis Peak San Juan 14023 3112 1
48 North Maroon Peak Elk 14022 329 4
49 Wetterhorn Peak San Juan 14021 1656 3
50 Wilson Peak San Juan 14021 865 3
51 Mount of the Holy Cross Sawatch 14007 2120 2
52 Huron Peak Sawatch 14006 1425 2
53 Sunshine Peak San Juan 14004 484 1+
*summits with less than 300' of prominence are not ranked fourteeners



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