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Mount Evans, Colorado

Mount Evans' Elevation: 14,264 Feet

Mount Evans' Rank Among Colorado's Fourteeners in Terms of Elevation: #14

Mount Evans is located along the Front Range

Mount Evans is considered walkable

Best months for climbing Mount Evans are June through September

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Mount Evans, with an elevation of 14,264 feet, is the fourteenth highest peak in the state of Colorado. This Fourteener located in the Chicago Peaks Range is the closest Fourteener to Denver, and is one of only two Colorado Fourteeners which are accessible by car, the other being Pikes Peak.

Mount Evans was originally known as Mount Rosa or Mount Rosalie, named after the wife of Fitz Hugh Ludlow (Rosa Ludlow would later divorce poor Fitz and almost immediately become the wife of Albert Bierstadt, who would have his own Fourteener named after him and would immortalize his wife's namesake in his painting Storm in the Rocky Mountains - it seems that the cuckolded Ludlow lost out in both love and history). Bierstadt is said to have been the first climber to ascend Mount Rosa in 1863 (along with his own mountain the same year), but other sources point to a Judge Lunt and a friend in 1872. In an ironic twist of history (and perhaps to avoid having two neighboring peaks named after two reputed adulterers), the Colorado legislature in 1895 officially renamed Mount Rosa Mount Evans in honor of John Evans, governor of the Colorado territory during the period of Bierstadt's reputed first ascent of the mountain.

During a period of competition for tourism between Denver with its Mount Evans and Colorado Springs with its Pikes Peak, Mayor Robert Speer of Denver obtained funding for construction of a road to the summit of Mount Evans, and, after a full ten years of construction, the Mount Evans Scenic Byway, the highest paved road in North America, opened in 1927. The Byway (and the peak) can be reached by taking I-70 west from Denver to Idaho Springs, then turning south to take Colorado 103 past Echo Lake before taking a right onto Colorado 5 (the Mount Evans Highway).

A trail leads from the parking lot to the peak (which is only 134 feet above), and several other trails lead out into the Mount Evans Wilderness Area. Also near the summit are the University of Denver's Meyer-Womble Observatory (which boasts the world's second highest telescope) and the ruins of the Crest House, a former restaurant and gift shop which burned down in 1979.



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Click here or below for Colorado’s Fourteeners from Bill’s Guide to Boulder, Colorado and Beyond: Colorado Rockies mountain peaks sorted by peak name, peak elevation, and mountain range which rise at least 14,000 feet above sea level and at least 300 feet above the saddles which connect them with another fourteener (if another 14er lies nearby)

Mt. Antero / Mt. Belford / Mt. Bierstadt / Blanca Peak / Mt. Bross / Capitol Peak / Castle Peak / Challenger Point / Mt. Columbia / Crestone Needle / Crestone Peak / Culebra Peak / Mt. Democrat / Mt. Elbert / Ellingwood Point / Mt. Eolus / Mt. Evans / Grays Peak / Handies Peak / Mt. Harvard / Humboldt Peak / Huron Peak / Kit Carson Peak / La Plata Peak / Mt. Lincoln / Mt. Lindsey / Little Bear Peak / Longs Peak / Maroon Peak / Mt. Massive / Missouri Mountain / Mount of the Holy Cross / Mt. Oxford / Pikes Peak / Mt. Princeton / Pyramid Peak / Quandary Peak / Redcloud Peak / San Luis Peak / Mt. Shavano / Mt. Sherman / Mt. Sneffels / Snowmass Mtn. / Sunlight Peak / Sunshine Peak / Tabeguache Peak / Torreys Peak / Uncompahgre Peak / Wetterhorn Peak / Mt. Wilson / Wilson Peak / Windom Peak / Mt. Yale





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